lingn.¹

Brit.

/lɪŋ/, U.S.

/lɪŋ/

Forms: Middle English lenge, Middle English leyng, Middle English leenge, Middle English–1600s lyng(e, linge, Middle English– ling.

Etymology: Middle English lenge , lienge , later ling(e (whence, according to Hatzfeld & Darmesteter, French lingue ); compare early modern Dutch lenghe , linghe (now leng ), German leng , länge , lange , Old Norse langa , Swedish långa , Norwegian langa , longa , Danish længe . Connection with long adj.¹ is probable.

1. A long slender gadoid fish, Molva vulgaris or Lota molva, inhabiting the seas of northern Europe. It is largely used for food (usually either salted, or split and dried). †old ling n. salted ling. organ ling see organ n.³

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > other edible fish

dogdrave1227

lamprey1297

lingc1300

loach1357

tench1390

carpc1440

rougetc1485

anchovy1582

pompano1598

tai1620

alewife1633

tug-whitingc1650

weakfish1686

ten-pounder1699

fire-flaira1705

tusk1707

porgy1725

katsuo1727

rockfish1731

tautog1750

sea bass1765

Albany beef1779

sable1810

Murray cod1843

paradise fish1858

spot1864

strawberry bass1867

nannygai1871

maomao1873

spotfish1875

strawberry perch1877

milkfish1880

tarwhine1880

tile-fish1881

latchett1882

tile1893

anago1895

flake1906

branzino1915

rascasse1921

lampuki1925

red fish1951

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > molva or ling

lingc1300

winter fish1343

orgays1427

ling fish1489

organ1499

drizzle1769

blue ling1902

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > salted or pickled fish

pickle-herring1463

round shore-herring1469

split herring1469

white herring1469

white-salted herring1469

ling fish1489

pickled herring?1577

mudfish1600

old ling1600

sea-stick1604

cor1624

crux-herrings1641

red fish1728

dunfish1746

sea steak1798

caveach1822

fair maid1823

dun codfish1839

crape-fish1856

black herring1883

rollmop1892

schmaltz herring1912

stink-fish1913

stinking fish1935

Spithead pheasant1948

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 832 Ne he ne mouthe on the se take Neyther lenge, ne thornbake.

1324–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 14 In..2 Lenges empt', 4s. 8d.

1377 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 46 In 1 Turbutt et 1 leyng emp..., 10s. 6d.

1425 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 255 Cum i viridi lynge, cum iii congers.

c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 43 Nym Milwel or lenge, þat is wel y-wateryd.

1459 in Paston Lett. I. 490 Item, ij saltyng tubbes. Item, viij. lynges.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15^v Ling, saltfish, & herring, for lent to prouide.

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. iii. sig. Mii^v He looks like..a drie Poule of Ling vpon Easter-eue, that has furnisht the Table all Lent.

1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. ii. 78 Take the jole of the best Ling that is not much watered.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. ii. 13, 14 Our old Lings, and our Isbels a'th Country, are nothing like your old Ling and your Isbels a'th Court.

1619 Pasquils Palinodia sig. D^v When Flesh doth bid adew for diuers weekes, And leaves old Ling to be his deputie.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 23 Ling, that Noble Fish, corrival in his Joule with the surloin of Beef.

1667 S. Pepys Diary 20 Mar. (1974) VIII. 121 Had a good dinner of Ling and herring pie.

1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 409 I stood by a Fishmongers Shop, whilst they were laying their dry Ling in the Water to soften it.

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 91 Old ling, which is the best Sort of Salt Fish, lay it in Water twelve Hours, then [etc.].

1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 22 The Ling in the neighbourhood of Iceland are so bad, that [etc.].

1823 C. Lamb Rejoicings New Year in Elia 2nd Ser. He..protested there was no faith in dried ling.

1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 182 The most usual length of the Ling is from three to four feet.

2. Applied in America, New Zealand, etc. to other fishes, as the burbot ( Lota maculosa), the cultus-cod ( Ophiodon elongatus), etc. (see quots.).

ΚΠ

c1850 S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 45 ‘What on earth is that?’ said I to the fisherman. ‘That’, said he, ‘is a species of ling; which we call in these parts a lawyer’.

1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 212 In eastern Florida it [Elacate canada] is called the sergeant-fish, and along the western coast of the peninsula it is known as the ling or snooks.

1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 260 One [fish] living in the sea round New Zealand (Genypterus blacodes) is known as the ling or cloudy bay-cod.

1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 270 The Cultus Cod is universally called ‘Cod-fish’ where the true cod is unknown. About Puget Sound the English call it ‘Ling’.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Ling..In New Zealand and Tasmania, it is applied to Genypterus blacodes, Forst.; also called Cloudy Bay Cod. Lotella marginata, Macl., is called Ling, in New South Wales.

Compounds

General attributive.

C1. (Cf. codfish n.)

ling fish n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > molva or ling

lingc1300

winter fish1343

orgays1427

ling fish1489

organ1499

drizzle1769

blue ling1902

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > salted or pickled fish

pickle-herring1463

round shore-herring1469

split herring1469

white herring1469

white-salted herring1469

ling fish1489

pickled herring?1577

mudfish1600

old ling1600

sea-stick1604

cor1624

crux-herrings1641

red fish1728

dunfish1746

sea steak1798

caveach1822

fair maid1823

dun codfish1839

crape-fish1856

black herring1883

rollmop1892

schmaltz herring1912

stink-fish1913

stinking fish1935

Spithead pheasant1948

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xvi. H vj b Grete foyson of ling fysshe, and haburden.

c1526 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 224 Sir, ye spoke with me that you wold have had som good ling fish.

1836 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 388 Spain presents a good..market for dried cod and ling fish.

ling fishery n.

ΚΠ

1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) ii. x. 325 The ling fishery.

1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. V. 436 The ling-fishery is an important industry, large quantities of these fish being cured and dried.

ling hook n.

ΚΠ

1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 510 The lines are fitted with ling hooks.

ling pie n.

ΚΠ

1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentments, or Eng. Huswife (new ed.) 100 A Ling pie.

C2. (Cf. sense 2.)

ling-cod n. North American a North Pacific species of cod, Ophiodon elongatus, also called cultus cod.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > ophiodon elongatus (cultus-cod)

green cod1881

cultus-cod1884

greenling1898

ling-cod1955

1955 W. Dawson Ahoy There! 205 Besides salmon, we catch cod..ling-cod of up to (in our case) twelve pounds.

1964 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Mar. 91/3 This is particularly true in the case of the ling cod, the spear-fisherman's favourite quarry.

1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Mar. 2/3 I have taken in recent years, six species of rockfish..also lingcod.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lingn.²

Brit.

/lɪŋ/, U.S.

/lɪŋ/

Forms: Also Middle English–1600s lyng(e, Middle English lynk, Middle English, 1600s lingge, 1500s–1600s linge.

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse lyng.

Etymology: < Old Norse lyng (Danish lyng, Swedish ljung) < Old Germanic type *lingwo^m. Compare Swedish lingon cowberry.

A name applied to various ericaceous plants, chiefly Calluna vulgaris; see heather n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > heather or heath and similar plants > [noun]

heather1335

ling?c1357

heath1626

grig1691

bottle heath?1711

sea-heath1713

heather-bell1725

red heath?1788

Calluna1803

Scotch heath1822

Erica1826

winter heath1842

heathwort1847

heath-blooms1858

St. Dabeoc's heath1863

cat-heather1864

honey bottle1868

French heath1871

?c1357 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 559 Et in reparacione stagni molend. Abbathie cum Mos et Lyng lucratis pro eadem.

a1440 Sir Degrev. 336 He laf slawe in a slak fforty score on a pak..Dede in the lyng.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 305/2 Ly(n)ge of the hethe, bruera.

14.. Arund. MS. 42, f. 23 b in Promptorium Parvulorum 305 (note) An heth þat groweþ ful..of lynk.

1486 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 249 For xiiij. thrave of lyng.

1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.viij^v Erice..is named in english Heth hather, or ling.

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 102 In the Dales of Richemontshire they burne Linge, Petes, and Turffes.

1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 397 Gif thow meitis ony leid lent on the ling.

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 116/1 in Chron. I There was growing in that place..very muche of that kinde of Heath or lynge, whiche the Scottishmen call hadder.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1206 Little beds..made of chast tree and of heath or lings.

1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue v. 235 Heath is the generall or common name, whereof there is one kind, called Hather, the other, Ling.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 357 Sheep will now abide that heath and feed upon Ling all the hardest winter.

1819 G. Crabbe Tales of Hall II. xix. 267 She..stirr'd the fire of ling, and brush'd the wicker chair.

1822 T. Bewick Mem. 11 The shepherd might have his hovel thatched with heather and ling.

1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 124 Their huts were always..thatched with rushes and ling.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

ling-thatch n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > for thatching > heather

ling-thatch1482

1482–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 648 Pro tractacione 40 travis del lyngthake, 20d.

1884 Good Words 25 21 The heavy ling thatch hung low over window and wall.

C2.

ling-bird n. the meadow-pipit, Anthus pratensis.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > anthus pratensis (titlark)

titlingc1550

linget1552

lark1602

chit1610

meadowlark1611

cucknel1655

titlark1666

cheeper1684

moss-cheeper1684

old-field lark1805

ling-bird1814

tit-pipit1817

meadow pipit1825

meadow titling1828

furze-lark1854

peep1859

1814 Sporting Mag. 44 245 (note) The small heath~bird or ling-bird.

1893 J. Watson Confess. Poacher 110 The ‘cheep-cheep’ of the awakening ling-birds rises from every brae.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lingn.³

Brit.

/lɪŋ/, U.S.

/lɪŋ/

Etymology: < Chinese ling (Giles).

The water-chestnut of China, Trapa bicornis, the seeds of which are much eaten as food.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > water-chestnut seeds

ling1860

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > stalk vegetables > water-chestnut

water nut1523

saligot1578

water chestnut1597

ling1860

Jesuits' nut1866

water caltrops1866

1860 J. Scarth Twelve Years China 8 Gathering the rich mould and decayed vegetable matter where the ‘ling’ has grown in the water.

1866 in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot.

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† lingv.

Etymology: Compare linge, to put out the tongue (Oxfordshire, Eng. Dial. Dict.).

? dialect. Obsolete.

intransitive. Of the tongue: To protrude from the mouth.

ΚΠ

1674 in A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 303 Her tongue would ling out of her mouth.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

> see also

also refers to : -lingsuffix¹

also refers to : -lingsuffix²

n.¹c1300

n.²?c1357

n.³1860

v.1674

单词	ling
释义	lingn.¹ Brit. /lɪŋ/, U.S. /lɪŋ/ Forms: Middle English lenge, Middle English leyng, Middle English leenge, Middle English–1600s lyng(e, linge, Middle English– ling. Etymology: Middle English lenge , lienge , later ling(e (whence, according to Hatzfeld & Darmesteter, French lingue ); compare early modern Dutch lenghe , linghe (now leng ), German leng , länge , lange , Old Norse langa , Swedish långa , Norwegian langa , longa , Danish længe . Connection with long adj.¹ is probable. 1. A long slender gadoid fish, Molva vulgaris or Lota molva, inhabiting the seas of northern Europe. It is largely used for food (usually either salted, or split and dried). †old ling n. salted ling. organ ling see organ n.³ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > other edible fish dogdrave1227 lamprey1297 lingc1300 loach1357 tench1390 carpc1440 rougetc1485 anchovy1582 pompano1598 tai1620 alewife1633 tug-whitingc1650 weakfish1686 ten-pounder1699 fire-flaira1705 tusk1707 porgy1725 katsuo1727 rockfish1731 tautog1750 sea bass1765 Albany beef1779 sable1810 Murray cod1843 paradise fish1858 spot1864 strawberry bass1867 nannygai1871 maomao1873 spotfish1875 strawberry perch1877 milkfish1880 tarwhine1880 tile-fish1881 latchett1882 tile1893 anago1895 flake1906 branzino1915 rascasse1921 lampuki1925 red fish1951 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > molva or ling lingc1300 winter fish1343 orgays1427 ling fish1489 organ1499 drizzle1769 blue ling1902 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > salted or pickled fish pickle-herring1463 round shore-herring1469 split herring1469 white herring1469 white-salted herring1469 ling fish1489 pickled herring?1577 mudfish1600 old ling1600 sea-stick1604 cor1624 crux-herrings1641 red fish1728 dunfish1746 sea steak1798 caveach1822 fair maid1823 dun codfish1839 crape-fish1856 black herring1883 rollmop1892 schmaltz herring1912 stink-fish1913 stinking fish1935 Spithead pheasant1948 c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 832 Ne he ne mouthe on the se take Neyther lenge, ne thornbake. 1324–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 14 In..2 Lenges empt', 4s. 8d. 1377 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 46 In 1 Turbutt et 1 leyng emp..., 10s. 6d. 1425 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 255 Cum i viridi lynge, cum iii congers. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 43 Nym Milwel or lenge, þat is wel y-wateryd. 1459 in Paston Lett. I. 490 Item, ij saltyng tubbes. Item, viij. lynges. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15^v Ling, saltfish, & herring, for lent to prouide. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. iii. sig. Mii^v He looks like..a drie Poule of Ling vpon Easter-eue, that has furnisht the Table all Lent. View more context for this quotation 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. ii. 78 Take the jole of the best Ling that is not much watered. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. ii. 13, 14 Our old Lings, and our Isbels a'th Country, are nothing like your old Ling and your Isbels a'th Court. 1619 Pasquils Palinodia sig. D^v When Flesh doth bid adew for diuers weekes, And leaves old Ling to be his deputie. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 23 Ling, that Noble Fish, corrival in his Joule with the surloin of Beef. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 20 Mar. (1974) VIII. 121 Had a good dinner of Ling and herring pie. 1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 409 I stood by a Fishmongers Shop, whilst they were laying their dry Ling in the Water to soften it. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 91 Old ling, which is the best Sort of Salt Fish, lay it in Water twelve Hours, then [etc.]. 1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 22 The Ling in the neighbourhood of Iceland are so bad, that [etc.]. 1823 C. Lamb Rejoicings New Year in Elia 2nd Ser. He..protested there was no faith in dried ling. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 182 The most usual length of the Ling is from three to four feet. 2. Applied in America, New Zealand, etc. to other fishes, as the burbot ( Lota maculosa), the cultus-cod ( Ophiodon elongatus), etc. (see quots.). ΚΠ c1850 S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 45 ‘What on earth is that?’ said I to the fisherman. ‘That’, said he, ‘is a species of ling; which we call in these parts a lawyer’. 1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 212 In eastern Florida it [Elacate canada] is called the sergeant-fish, and along the western coast of the peninsula it is known as the ling or snooks. 1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 260 One [fish] living in the sea round New Zealand (Genypterus blacodes) is known as the ling or cloudy bay-cod. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 270 The Cultus Cod is universally called ‘Cod-fish’ where the true cod is unknown. About Puget Sound the English call it ‘Ling’. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Ling..In New Zealand and Tasmania, it is applied to Genypterus blacodes, Forst.; also called Cloudy Bay Cod. Lotella marginata, Macl., is called Ling, in New South Wales. Compounds General attributive. C1. (Cf. codfish n.) ling fish n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > molva or ling lingc1300 winter fish1343 orgays1427 ling fish1489 organ1499 drizzle1769 blue ling1902 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > salted or pickled fish pickle-herring1463 round shore-herring1469 split herring1469 white herring1469 white-salted herring1469 ling fish1489 pickled herring?1577 mudfish1600 old ling1600 sea-stick1604 cor1624 crux-herrings1641 red fish1728 dunfish1746 sea steak1798 caveach1822 fair maid1823 dun codfish1839 crape-fish1856 black herring1883 rollmop1892 schmaltz herring1912 stink-fish1913 stinking fish1935 Spithead pheasant1948 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xvi. H vj b Grete foyson of ling fysshe, and haburden. c1526 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 224 Sir, ye spoke with me that you wold have had som good ling fish. 1836 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 388 Spain presents a good..market for dried cod and ling fish. ling fishery n. ΚΠ 1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) ii. x. 325 The ling fishery. 1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. V. 436 The ling-fishery is an important industry, large quantities of these fish being cured and dried. ling hook n. ΚΠ 1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 510 The lines are fitted with ling hooks. ling pie n. ΚΠ 1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentments, or Eng. Huswife (new ed.) 100 A Ling pie. C2. (Cf. sense 2.) ling-cod n. North American a North Pacific species of cod, Ophiodon elongatus, also called cultus cod. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > ophiodon elongatus (cultus-cod) green cod1881 cultus-cod1884 greenling1898 ling-cod1955 1955 W. Dawson Ahoy There! 205 Besides salmon, we catch cod..ling-cod of up to (in our case) twelve pounds. 1964 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Mar. 91/3 This is particularly true in the case of the ling cod, the spear-fisherman's favourite quarry. 1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Mar. 2/3 I have taken in recent years, six species of rockfish..also lingcod. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lingn.² Brit. /lɪŋ/, U.S. /lɪŋ/ Forms: Also Middle English–1600s lyng(e, Middle English lynk, Middle English, 1600s lingge, 1500s–1600s linge. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse lyng. Etymology: < Old Norse lyng (Danish lyng, Swedish ljung) < Old Germanic type lingwo^m. Compare Swedish lingon* cowberry. A name applied to various ericaceous plants, chiefly Calluna vulgaris; see heather n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > heather or heath and similar plants > [noun] heather1335 ling?c1357 heath1626 grig1691 bottle heath?1711 sea-heath1713 heather-bell1725 red heath?1788 Calluna1803 Scotch heath1822 Erica1826 winter heath1842 heathwort1847 heath-blooms1858 St. Dabeoc's heath1863 cat-heather1864 honey bottle1868 French heath1871 ?c1357 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 559 Et in reparacione stagni molend. Abbathie cum Mos et Lyng lucratis pro eadem. a1440 Sir Degrev. 336 He laf slawe in a slak fforty score on a pak..Dede in the lyng. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 305/2 Ly(n)ge of the hethe, bruera. 14.. Arund. MS. 42, f. 23 b in Promptorium Parvulorum 305 (note) An heth þat groweþ ful..of lynk. 1486 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 249 For xiiij. thrave of lyng. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.viij^v Erice..is named in english Heth hather, or ling. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 102 In the Dales of Richemontshire they burne Linge, Petes, and Turffes. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 397 Gif thow meitis ony leid lent on the ling. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 116/1 in Chron. I There was growing in that place..very muche of that kinde of Heath or lynge, whiche the Scottishmen call hadder. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1206 Little beds..made of chast tree and of heath or lings. 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue v. 235 Heath is the generall or common name, whereof there is one kind, called Hather, the other, Ling. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 357 Sheep will now abide that heath and feed upon Ling all the hardest winter. 1819 G. Crabbe Tales of Hall II. xix. 267 She..stirr'd the fire of ling, and brush'd the wicker chair. 1822 T. Bewick Mem. 11 The shepherd might have his hovel thatched with heather and ling. 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 124 Their huts were always..thatched with rushes and ling. Compounds C1. General attributive. ling-thatch n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > for thatching > heather ling-thatch1482 1482–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 648 Pro tractacione 40 travis del lyngthake, 20d. 1884 Good Words 25 21 The heavy ling thatch hung low over window and wall. C2. ling-bird n. the meadow-pipit, Anthus pratensis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > anthus pratensis (titlark) titlingc1550 linget1552 lark1602 chit1610 meadowlark1611 cucknel1655 titlark1666 cheeper1684 moss-cheeper1684 old-field lark1805 ling-bird1814 tit-pipit1817 meadow pipit1825 meadow titling1828 furze-lark1854 peep1859 1814 Sporting Mag. 44 245 (note) The small heath~bird or ling-bird. 1893 J. Watson Confess. Poacher 110 The ‘cheep-cheep’ of the awakening ling-birds rises from every brae. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lingn.³ Brit. /lɪŋ/, U.S. /lɪŋ/ Etymology: < Chinese ling (Giles). The water-chestnut of China, Trapa bicornis, the seeds of which are much eaten as food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > water-chestnut seeds ling1860 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > stalk vegetables > water-chestnut water nut1523 saligot1578 water chestnut1597 ling1860 Jesuits' nut1866 water caltrops1866 1860 J. Scarth Twelve Years China 8 Gathering the rich mould and decayed vegetable matter where the ‘ling’ has grown in the water. 1866 in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † lingv. Etymology: Compare linge, to put out the tongue (Oxfordshire, Eng. Dial. Dict.). ? dialect. Obsolete. intransitive. Of the tongue: To protrude from the mouth. ΚΠ 1674 in A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 303 Her tongue would ling out of her mouth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > see also also refers to : -lingsuffix¹ also refers to : -lingsuffix² < n.¹c1300n.²?c1357n.³1860v.1674 see also
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