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Definition of Reckling
1. a. Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child.
Definition of Reckling
1. Noun. A weak child or animal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reckling
1. the runt of a litter [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reckling
Literary usage of Reckling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"There's only that little grate, no recking-hook, nor nowt. reckling, s,—The
smallest and weakest in a brood or litter. There's oftens a reckling or two in a ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe) by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"reckling, s,—The smallest and weakest in a brood or litter. ... The pig as they
took was the reckling, the others were ten shillings better. RECKON, v. ..."
3. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"Diet. sv reckling, a puny infant, the smallest in a litter, is more correctly
... Not two but three ; there lay the reckling, one But one hour old ! ..."
4. A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes by Walter William Skeat (1896)
"My experience is, that to ask for a quotation is a sure way of bringing a ridiculous
criticism to a sudden stop.] 324. reckling= ..."
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