† odlingn.
Obsolete. rare.
Perhaps: cheating or trickery.
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1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Dram. Pers. sig. Aiv Shift. A Thredbare Sharke. One that neuer was Soldior, yet liues vpon lendings. His profession is skeldring and odling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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n.1600- to fall upon etc ears
- to fall upon hard times
- to fall upon lot
- to fall upon one's feet
- to fall upon one's legs
- to fall upon receptive ears
- to fall upon stint
- to fall upon the ear
- to fall upon the town
- to fall upon understanding ears
- to fall victim to
- to fall with
- to fall with bairn
- to fall with child
- to fall with one's nose in the butter
- to fall, come to the ground, sit between two stools
- to fall, get, go to loggerheads
- to fall, go, kneel, lie, set oneself, sit down on one's knees
- to fall, go, kneel, lie, set oneself, sit down on one's knees on knee(s
- to fall, lie in occasionally of swoon
- to fall, lie in occasionally on swoon
- to fall, lie in swoon
- to fall, lull, lay asleep
- to fall, lull, lay bring obs asleep
- to fall, run to mind