† letterlingn.
Obsolete.
A short letter; a note.
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schedule1397
billet1579
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notea1616
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letterling1781
letteret1799
letterlet1812
notelet1823
epistolet1824
notekin1861
1781 T. Twining Let. 19 Apr. in Sel. Papers Twining Family (1887) 5 Your reproaches about stretch-work, short lines, and letterlings.
1801 R. Southey Let. 11 Dec. in O. Williams Lamb's Friend Census-taker iii. 68 Yesterday (the day after your letterling reached me) I journeyed to Johnson's for my friend Thady.
1891 Irish Monthly 19 385 Three unpublished letterlings of Cardinal Newman, embedded in a new preface..elevate that preface into the region of literature.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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