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carling¹

Where it comes from

See carline.

noun carlings

  1. alternative Alternative form of carline (“old woman”).

carling²

Where it comes from

Compare French carlingue, which may be from the English.

noun carlings

  1. A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking.

carling³

Where it comes from

From care + -ling (synchronically), being connected to the custom of serving these peas to the poor on Care Sunday, called also Carling Sunday after the peas.

noun carlings · carlin · carl · carle

  1. A cultivar of field pea or maple pea, dried, soaked, boiled, then fried.

    Similar: carling pea

Carling⁴

  • /ˈkɑːlɪŋ/ UK

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋ

Where it comes from

From Medieval Latin Carlingus, from a Frankish patronymic ultimately composed of Proto-West Germanic *karil + *-ing. By surface analysis, Carl + -ing.

Cognate with Middle High German Kärling, Middle French Carlinge.

noun Carlings

  1. alternative Alternative form of Caroling (“a descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian”) Lothar died soon after, in 986; and though his son Louis V. was crowned, he only lived a year, and when he died in 987, the great counts and dukes met in consultation with the chief of the clergy, and agreed that, as the Counts of Paris were the real heads of the State, and nobody cared for the Carl

Carling⁵

  • /ˈkɑːlɪŋ/ UK

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋ

proper noun Carlings

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
  3. countable, uncountable A commune in Moselle department, Grand Est, France.

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@misc{carling_2026,
  title = {carling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/carling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}