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† ˈalderling Obs. or dial.
[perh. f. alder n.1 + -ling.]
A term applied to some fresh-water fish, called also dialectally aller-trout.
1655Mouffet & Benn. Health's Improv. (1746) 283 Gray Trouts..lurk..like the Alderlings under the Roots of great Alders. Ibid. 268 Alderlings are a kind of Fish betwixt a Trout and a Grayling. 1661Lovell Anim. & Min. 232 Alderling..lie ever in deep water under some old and great Alder. |