flockling

English

Etymology

flock +‎ -ling

Noun

flockling (plural flocklings)

1. (obsolete, rare) A lamb.
   • 1659, Richard Brome, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     […] she takes not so much for curing a thousand mortal People, as I have spent in Turpentine and Tarre to keep my Flocklings cleanly in a Spring time.