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单词 wreckling
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wrecklingn.

Etymology: variant of reckling n. Compare wregling n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwreckling.
Now dialect.
A weak, puny, or dwarfish animal (or plant); spec. the smallest and weakest of a litter.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 530 It causeth it [sc. the vine] to seeme scortched and full of knots, yea and to grow like a dwarfe or wreckling.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 48 When shee shoulde come to foale, shee would bring foorth nought but a wreckling.
1614 G. Markham Swine in Cheape & Good Husb. xi. 94 Take the wreckling, or worst Pigge, and annoint it all ouer.
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. Wrecklin, the least animal in a brood or litter.
attributive.1602 tr. Pastor Fido iv. viii. M 2 b Too much I honour thee, poore weake and wreckling child.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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