Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One of the short timbers running fore and aft that connect the transverse beams supporting the deck of a ship.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The Sunday before Palm Sunday; the fifth Sunday in Lent, commonly known as Passion Sunday. It was an old custom to eat a certain kind of peas on that day.
- n. [l. c] plural The peas eaten on Passion Sunday; “grey peas steeped all night in water, and fried next day in butter” (Brockett).
- n. See carline.
Wiktionary
- n. nautical A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking.
- n. Alternative form of carlin (old woman)
- n. Alternative form of care, used in Carling Sunday or Care Sunday.
Etymologies
- From Old Norse karling, feminine of karl ("carl"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French calingue and from Old Norse kerling, old woman (Old French, from Old Norse). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Filed under: Music | Tagged: gin goblins, glasgow carling, hawkwind, silver machine”
Hawkwind at Glasgow Carling Academy, December 4th « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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“Filed under: Music | Tagged: danko jones, glasgow carling academy, motorhead, overkill, saxon, set the tone, strathclyde students union”
Motorhead + Saxon/Danko Jones at Glasgow Carling, Nov 10th 08 « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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“One rammer [2] | On the beam or carling over the left”
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
“One sponge and cap [2] | On the beam or carling over the”
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
“Do your research : arsenal recently played in their first round of the carling cup against shrewsbury in front of almost 60,000 despite being in the CL so how comes they didnt have 33,000 ?”
“I predict Wales to beat Scotland in the WC qualifiers,as they beat them previously 3 - 0 prior to the minnows carling cup.”
“Yet though Hernandez struggled to his feet, he was clearly in trouble, inspiring Sir Alex Ferguson to give another rare opportunity to Michael Owen following his double against Leeds in the carling Cup in midweek.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Then there's the CL, FA and carling cup matches aswell.”
Lists
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Dr. Jamieson on Human Nature
Unflattering Scots terms and nicknames for people and their perceived or imagined foibles, follies, and failings. Gleaned from Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
abbey-laird, donnat, donsie, doncie, braw-warld, falsar, gileynour, gilainger, gillet, gillflirt, gy, haniel and 105 more...
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Selected Terms from Falconer's New Un...
1815 edition; ed. William Burney (London: Chatham Publishing, 2006).
widows' men, ballatoon, boomkin, leefange, falconet, maculae, lepus, koff, pardo, periagua, dingass, saik and 238 more...
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hernesheir carlin Jun 24, 2011
chained_bear "... short pieces of timber ranging fore and aft, from one of the deck beams to another, into which their ends are scored: they are used to sustain and fortify the smaller beams of the ship, and are exhibited in the deck. They are pieces of oak timber, about eight feet long and eight inches square, or more, used for the purpose of framing the partners."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 77 Oct 14, 2008