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reckling en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹɛklɪŋ/

Etymology

From reck + -ling.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A weak child or animal.
   • O ay, what say ye to Sir Valence, him / Whose kinsman left him watcher o'er his wife / And two fair babes, and went to distant lands; / Was one year gone, and on returning found / Not two but three: there lay the reckling, one / But one hour old! What said the happy sire? 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 130:
2. (archaic) A reckless person.

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