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▪ I. † castling, n. Obs.|ˈkɑːstlɪŋ, -æ-|
[f. cast ppl. a. or n. + dim. suffix -ling.]
1. The offspring of an untimely birth, an abortion.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Avorton, that which is brought forth before the tyme, a castling. 1611Cotgr., Cadel, a castling, a starueling. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 84 We should rather relie upon the urine in a Castlings bladder. 1664Butler Hud. ii. ii. 539 Castling Foles of Bal'am's Ass. 1704Worlidge Dict. Rust. et Urb. s.v. Wet-Glover, Castling skins..are slender, thin, and gentle.
2. The second (or third) swarm which leaves a hive in the season; = cast n. 18. Also transf.
1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 5, 17 [queen bees], whereof one went forth with the prime swarm, 5 were brought out dead fowr days before the Castling rose, other five came forth with the Castling. 1622–62Heylin Cosmogr. (1674) Introd. 6/1 Those Countries were of an elder Plantation, than to be a second or third Castling of some other Swarm. 1630J. Levett Order. Bees (1634) 27 When you have a second swarme or castling (as some call it). 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. iv. §11. 562 Not to have been that ancient people but rather some latter Castlings.
▪ II. castling, vbl. n.|ˈkɑːslɪŋ, -æ-|
see castle v. |