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strayling|ˈstreɪlɪŋ|
[f. stray a. or v. + -ling1.
Cf. changeling, wildling. The word coincides formally with a possible dim. of stray n., but in the quots. it has not the dim. sense.]
A stray thing or person.
1838Lytton Leila iii. i. 31 It may win a new strayling to the Immortal Fold. 1881G. Allen in Cornhill Mag. June 705 Sometimes garden kinds, escaped from cultivation..sometimes American straylings. 1904Blackw. Mag. Jan. 156/1 We owe a greater debt to our own countrymen than to the straylings from Russia. |