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▪ I. chickling1|ˈtʃɪklɪŋ|
[see -ling.]
A tiny chick.
1755in Johnson; and in mod. Dicts.
▪ II. chickling2, chichling|ˈtʃɪklɪŋ, ˈtʃɪtʃlɪŋ|
Forms: 6 cich(e)lynge, cichelinge, 6–8 cichling, 7–8 chichling, 8 chicheling; 7– chickling.
[In 16th c. cicheling, chicheling, dim. of ciche, chich, formed to represent Lat. cicercula as dim. of cicera. Altered in 18th c. to chickling.
(It is doubtful whether the alteration was intended, or merely due to an error; chickling occurs in Wilkins 1668, perh. a misprint; Kersey's Dict. 1708–21 has chichling; so Bailey 1721, but from 1731 onwards the edd. have chickling; this was app. a misprint, for Bailey's folio of 1730–36 retains chichling, which also occurs in writers as late as 1759. The Index to Miller's Gardener's Dict. 1759 has chickling, but the text chichling (about 35 times under Lathyrus). Britten and Holland adopt the form cichling.]
A name given by Turner to the Common cultivated Vetch (Lathyrus sativus), largely grown in England for fodder, but in the south of Europe as pulse. black cichlynge: Turner's name for the allied Lathyrus Cicera, Lesser Chick Pea, Flat-podded Vetch; the ciere of OF., L. cicera.
1548Turner Names of Herbes, Cicera maye be called in englishe blacke cichlynge. Ibid. s.v. Cicercula, The puls maye be called in Englishe cichlynge, or litle or Petie ciche. 1578Lyte Dodoens 476 There be two sortes of Cichelinges, the great and the small, or garden and wilde Cichelinges. 1601Holland Pliny II. 142 The Cichling or pety Cich-pease [cicercula]. 1611Cotgr., Garvences, Fitches, Chichlings. 1713J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 209 Manured White Chichling. 1708–21Kersey, Chichlings. 1721Bailey, Chichlings [edd. 1731–1800 Chickling; folio ed. 1730–36Chichlings].
b. Now more fully called chickling vetch (formerly also chicheling pease).
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxxviii. [They] had hid themselves in the garden upon the chichling pease. 1756Watson in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 843 Chichling Vetch. In boggy, watery places. 1759Miller Gard. Dict., Lathyrus, Chichling Vetch. Ibid. (Index) Chickling Pea: see Lathyrus. 1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (Catal. Seeds) Vetch, Kidney, Chickling. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. II. 138 In Switzerland..the Chickling Vetch..is cultivated. |