porkling

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English

Etymology

From pork +‎ -ling.

Noun

porkling (plural porklings)

(dated) A young pig; a porket.
- 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: Robert Triphook, , and William Sancho, , 1810, →OCLC:
  And serue thee in winter, more ouer than that,
  to shut vp thy porklings thou mindest to fat

References

“porkling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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