yetlings

Noun

yetling (countable and uncountable, plural yetlings)

1. (Scotland, UK, obsolete) Cast iron.
   • Scots ploughs, very neatly made, and covered with yetling, are the only kind used in this parish.1794, John Sinclair, The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, page 178
2. (Scotland, UK, broadly) A small cauldron, or rounded pot, typically, but not always, made of cast iron.
   • Still, it occurs to me that Yetlington is more probably indebted to its name from being the spot where " yetlings" were made. To this day the metal pot used by the muggers is known by that appellation in its immediate neighhourhood, and bears a striking resemblance to a sacred utensil used during...1842, Local Collections; Or, Records of Remarkable Events, Connected with the Borough of Gateshead, page 50

   Synonyms:

   yet

3. (Scotland, UK) A small cast iron ball.
   • A more recent conjecture traces a connection between it and the game still, or not long ago, played at New Year with yetlings or balls of cast iron on the sands near the Skilleys of Wemyss, in which, as in the North German Klotschiessen, the player who drives the ball to the goal in the fewest...1896, The County Histories of Scotland - Volume 4, page 231