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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mort•ling (môrt′ling),USA pronunciation n. [Brit.]- Textiles, British Termswool obtained from dead sheep.
- Anglo-French mortekine, for Old French mortecine ( Latin morticīnus (of an animal) having died naturally) with final conformed to Middle English -kin -kin; see -ling1
- 1400–50; earlier morling, late Middle English; probably by suffix substitution from mor(t)kin dead animal
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