单词 | wreckling |
释义 | wrecklingn. Now dialect. A weak, puny, or dwarfish animal (or plant); spec. the smallest and weakest of a litter. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > [noun] > unhealthy animal > stunted animal wreckling1601 wragland1611 crowl1621 wregling1679 stunt1726 runt1902 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1601 |
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