† odlingn.
Obsolete. rare.
Perhaps: cheating or trickery.
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1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Dram. Pers. sig. Aiv Shift. A Thredbare Sharke. One that neuer was Soldior, yet liues vpon lendings. His profession is skeldring and odling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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