oaklingn.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 3 Oaklings, young beeches, Ash and some others, spring from the self-sown Mast and Keys.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. xxiv. 232 He would plant an oakling for every oak he cut down.

1794 R. Polwhele Epist. to Dr. Downman in Poems (1806) III. 251 Hence appear little fields of hay, fallow, or corn, That pollards of beech and bald oaklings adorn.

1833 Q. Rev. 521 The oakling withers beneath the shadow of the oak.

1851 G. Meredith South-west Wind in Woodland in Poet. Wks. (1919) 25 Pine, And larch, and beech, and fir, and thorn, And ash, and oak, and oakling, rave And shriek, and shout, and whirl, and toss.

1873 T. T. Stoddart Songs of Seasons 186 Of our oakling we must have the timber.

1937 Q. Rev. Biol. 12 51/1 Can anyone believe that the survival of that one oakling out of untold millions is due to inherent superiority—that it is the ‘fittest’ of all?

1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) i. 22 An alley of ornamental oaklings in the park of our country estate.

1999 Dominion (Wellington) (Nexis) 8 May 24 The episode..highlights the American forest rangers' practice of flying over woodland and dropping thousands of small ‘balls’ to stop oaklings crowding out essential pine habitat for birds.