rearlingn.
/ˈrɪəlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrɪrlɪŋ/ A person or animal that has been reared away from its natural parents; spec. (a) a hand-reared animal; (b) a foster child.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > foster-child
fosterlingc1000
foster-childa1200
fosterc1275
nurryc1330
nurse-child1562
alum1683
dalt1775
rearling1832
1832 W. O. Pughe Dict. Welsh Lang. (ed. 2) II. 336/1 Megyn, a nurseling, a rearling [1803 a nurseling, a reared animal].
1854 G. Burges tr. Plato Wks. III. 200 The science..was and is in the case of tame animals, and is to be sought for among the gregarious rearlings.
1884 J. Payne tr. Tales from Arabic II. 100 This youth is my rearling, and he was born of one of my slave-girls.
1957 Africa 27 394/2 It follows you, does a ‘rearling’. A rearling is nurtured.
1996 B. Cary Tales from Jackpine Bob (2003) 146 A species surviving from glacial times, undiluted with hatchery rearlings.
2006 E. M. Harris Democracy & Rule of Law in Anc. Athens i. i. 15 If he should not teach him his craft, that rearling shall return to his father's house.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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