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rabbitling en · NOUN

Etymology

From rabbit + -ling.

Meanings

1. (rare) A small or young rabbit.
   • Three rabbitlings, all with surprising tails — an unique breed — were a peace-offering to move the stubbornest of hearts. 1857, Henry Morley, Gossip, page 228:
   • Yonder goes a weasel wriggling over a turf fence, on the other side of which probably it has its home, gorged, as one can imagine, with the brains of silly rabbibs^([sic]) and rabbitlings. 1887, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 263, page 301:
   • The total quantity of milk produced during the year was 129,399.6 litres, out of which 25,420.0 litres were fed to calves, piglets and rabbitlings, 78,467.0 litres were sold to Hospitals, […] 1980, Annual Report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Environment, page 177:
   • I remember catching a nearly full-grown "rabbitling” in a rather strange way when the waters were out at Windsor, Eton, and Datchet. 1905, Arthur Henry Beavan, Animals I Have Known, page 72:

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