Barling
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The smallest pig in a litter; runt. UK, dialectal
- 2 A pole; (carpentry) the cross rafter of a roof. Scotland, UK, dialectal, rare
"A tripod can be formed of three hop poles or barlings. The former can be laid in depths up to 2^ metres and the latter in depths up to about 5 metres at low water if the tidal range does not exceed about 3 metres."
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A village in Barling Magna parish, Rochford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ9389).
- 3 A city in Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States.
Example
More examples"A tripod can be formed of three hop poles or barlings. The former can be laid in depths up to 2^ metres and the latter in depths up to about 5 metres at low water if the tidal range does not exceed about 3 metres."
Etymology
From Middle English *barling, diminutive of Middle English bar, bor (“boar”), equivalent to boar + -ling. Compare Scots bar, bare, bair (“boar”).
From Middle English barling, berling, from Old Norse berlingr (“bar, pole”) (found in berlings-áss (“bar, beam, plank, rail”)), a diminutive derived from Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”); equivalent to bar + -ling. Cognate with Swedish bärling (“pole, bar”).
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