yetlingn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈjɛtlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈjɛtlɪŋ/, Scottish English

/ˈjɛtlɪŋ/,

/ˈjɛtlɪn/

Forms: Middle English getelyng, Middle English ȝetlyng, Middle English ȝetteling, Middle English ȝettelyng, Middle English ȝettlyng, Middle English yetlyng, Middle English yetteling, Middle English ythlyng, Middle English–1500s 1700s– yetling, 1500s yaitling, 1500s yeatling, 1700s atelin, 1700s yettling, 1800s heeatling, 1800s yetelin, 1800s yitling, 1800s– yetlin, 1800s– yettlin, 1900s yatlin, 2000s– yettling; Scottish pre-1700 ȝeatling, pre-1700 ȝetin (perhaps transmission error), pre-1700 ȝetling, pre-1700 ȝetlyn, pre-1700 ȝetlyng, pre-1700 ȝettling, pre-1700 yetlyn, pre-1700 yetlyne, pre-1700 1700s yetline, pre-1700 1700s–1800s yettling, pre-1700 1700s– yetlin, pre-1700 1700s– yetling, 1700s 1800s yetlen, 1700s 1800s yettlen, 1700s–1900s yetland, 1700s–1900s yettlin, 1800s yetlan, 1800s yetlan', 1900s– yatlen (Shetland), 1900s– yatlin (Shetland), 1900s– yetleen (Orkney), 1900s– yettleen (Orkney), 1900s– yitling; N.E.D (1921) also records a form late Middle English ȝettlyne.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: yet v., -ling suffix¹.

Etymology: < yet v. (compare β. forms at that entry) + -ling suffix¹.In the forms yetland, yetlan', etc. apparently with alteration of the final -ing after -and, -an', Scots variants of -ing suffix²; these forms first appear in use as adjective (compare quot. 1792 at sense B.), but are subsequently also found as nouns. The form ȝetin may alternatively be a variant of yoten adj. (compare the β. forms at that entry), although that word is not otherwise attested in Older Scots use.

Scottish and English regional (northern).

A. n.

I. An item made of cast metal, esp. cast iron.

1. A vessel of cast metal, typically iron or brass; esp. a small cast iron cooking pot, often having three short feet and a hooped handle.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pot with legs or feet

posnetc1350

yetling1354

skillet1403

skill1600

Barnstaple oven1716

bastable oven1748

goashore1834

bastable1836

kaffir pot1863

kohua1901

potjie1985

1354 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. xxxvii (MED) Item, iij ollae minores, j urceolus, ij yetlynges.

1378–9 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 588 In factura unius yetling.

1452 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 162 j. magnum yetlyng de ere.

1472 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 246 ij ȝetlynges enee.

1559 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 183 One yaitling of brasse.

1564 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 223 First a pan w^th eares v^s—ij yetlinges iiij^s.

1659 in J. B. Craven Hist. Church in Orkney (1897) II. 198 Two iron pottes, quherof on wanting the foot, two yetlings, quherof one brocken.

1702 in Northumbld. Gloss. (1892) 19 Itm. an atelin in the Abbey great kitchen.

1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Yetling, a small iron boiler. N.

1795 G. Galloway Fatal Effects of Duelling 8 They straight repair to Stirling's yettlin, An' pour a routh o' auld Scots vittle in This ancient mug.

1865 E. Corvan et al. Choice Coll. Tyneside Songs 9 A kyel pot an a yetlin fell a-top iv his head.

1892 J. Raine Handbk. York Museum 173 A fine..camp-kettle or yetling, 16½ in. high by 12 in. diameter, with three tall legs ending in claws.

1937 ‘A. Hepple’ Heydays & Maydays 80 She plucked a couple of chickens, and hanging the yetling on the swee at the side of the fire, she put them into it.

1963 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. ii. 489 Q[uestion]. What do you call that old-fashioned arrangement for hanging a kettle on to heat it over the fire?.. [Northumberland] Yetling-hook.

2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 12 July 9 True Fat Rascals were not cooked in an oven but over a peat fire in a ‘yetling’.

†2. A small cast iron cannon. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > small or short pieces

murderer1495

curtala1509

minion1513

passe-volant1513

pikmoyane1513

saker1521

base1539

robinet1547

quarter cannon?a1549

bersec1550

murdresarc1550

yetling1558

battardc1565

demi-cannon1577

calabass1578

double curtal1582

demi-culverin1587

rabinet1596

murdering piece1601

drake1627

putter1646

cartow1650

putterlingc1650

minion drakea1661

cut1672

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murther1688

carronade1779

carthoun1849

1558 in R. Adam Edinb. Rec. (1899) I. 258 Four ȝetlings coft fra David Duf and James Litstair, and coft fra Johnne Bad ij brassin peces.

1566 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1916) XI. 518 Twa culvering moyanis of found and ane grit ȝetling of irne.

1576 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 51 The tovnis yetlingis lyand vpon the kirk of feild steipill, with thair fourniture.

1647 Edinb. Test. LXIII. f. 67, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Ȝetling Ane great ȝetling with the laidel and iroune calmes perteining thairto.

3. Scottish (Orkney and Shetland). A heavy, flat iron plate that is heated and used for cooking cakes and scones; a griddle.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > griddle

baking iron1352

griddle1352

girdlea1400

griddle-iron1843

tawac1843

yetling1866

spider1875

1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 147 Yetlin, a girdle on which cakes are baked.

1868 D. Gorrie Summers & Winters in Orkneys ix. 354 Flat stones which served the purpose of yettlins, or girdles for firing cakes and scones.

1911 J. Omond Orkney 80 Years Ago 9/1 A big yetlin (a large flat pan) is on the fire, for the rosy cheeked bare-armed daughter is baking sowan scones.

1956 C. M. Costie Benjie's Bodle 64 I hid tae waal me wey among the bairns tae win tae the yettleen wae me bannocks.

1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. Yetleen, an iron girdle used for baking, once hung on a cruik but now used on the top of cookers.

4. A cast iron ball used in a game resembling bowls traditionally played in Wemyss, Fife at New Year. Also (in plural): the game itself. Now historical.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun] > bowl

bowlc1420

bias bowl1592

sand bowlsa1683

wood1884

yetling1895

1895 Fife News 19 Jan. 7 The ‘yettling’ measures some seven inches in circumference, and its regulation weight is from twenty two to twenty four ounces.

1895 Dundee Courier & Argus 19 Apr. 3/8 A game known as ‘the Yettlins’, because of its being played with a ball of iron, flung, with the aid of a strap, with an underhand throw over a rocky course on the shore.

1911 Warren County (Illinois) Democrat 28 Dec. At Wemyss..a curious New Year game, known as Yettlins, has been played since time immemorial... The yettlin goes at immense speed when it is thrown.

2005 J. Burnett in T. Collins et al. Encycl. Trad. Brit. Rural Sports 265/2 This aid [sc. a leather strap] was allowed in the game of yetlins... This game seems to have been played using whinstone bullets until about 1840 when yetlins were introduced.

II. The material.

5. Cast metal, esp. cast iron. Now rare. Cf. sense B. and yetling iron n. at Compounds.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > cast iron

font1578

yetling iron1578

cast iron1665

iron foundry1686

yetling1769

metal1858

1769 Weekly Mag. (Edinb.) 15 June 352 Arrived. At Leith..the James of Carron, Saunders, from ditto with yetline.

1777 W. Nimmo Gen. Hist. Stirlingshire xiii. 309 It [sc. the pint jug] is made of a sort of yetlin, and appears to be very old.

1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. VIII. 413 The Stirling Jug..is made of a kind of brass or yettlin.

1883 J. Martine Reminisc. Royal Burgh Haddington 384 The land was as hard as ‘yetlan’ and would soon kill them and their horses.

1914 J. S. Angus Gloss. Shetland Dial. 160 Yatlen, cast iron.

B. adj.

Made of cast metal, esp. cast iron. Now rare.Some early instances may represent appositive compounds of sense A. 1 (i.e. yetling pot = a pot that is a yetling, rather than a pot that is made of yetling).

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [adjective] > made of cast iron

yetling1445

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [adjective] > made of cast iron > of iron: cast

yetling1445

1445 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 194 (MED) Lego..j ollam eneam..vocatam a getelyngpotte.

1495–6 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. cccxciv j yetlyngpan et iij laddels de auricalco.

1572 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 381 Two yetling pans viij^s.

1590 in A. Maxwell Hist. Old Dundee (1884) 213 To sell the auld pieces callit heidsticks being in the steeple to the gritest avail, and wair and bestow the money gotten therefor upon sufficient yetling ordinance to the common use of the burgh.

1621 Brechin Test. IV. f. 2^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Ȝetling Ane auld ȝetlinge pan of brais.

1703 G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (1911) 170 A little yetlin kettle.

1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 167 The ploughs..have a cast yetland mould-board.

1836 M. Mackintosh Cottager's Daughter 190 My heart..As hard as ony yetlin floor Or whunstane rock.

1886 ‘H. Haliburton’ Horace in Homespun 78 Saturday comes, an' the triangle, An' then sae manfu' as he strides An' tingles on its yetlan' sides!

1952 T. A. Robertson Laeves fae Vagaland 2 Da muckle yatlin kettle hingin rampin ida crook.

Compounds

† yetling iron n. Obsolete cast iron.

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