Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
morling .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a morling.
- noun Wool plucked from a dead sheep; morling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect An
animal , such as asheep , that has died ofdisease orprivation . - noun UK
Wool taken from a dead sheep.
Etymologies
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Compare French mort dead, Latin mortuus.
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Examples
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Stopping only hriefly to leave my identity in an envelope in the manager's safe, we wet1t to the ne\v headquarters to collect Merwn, pamphlets, Faith and Lavcnder, and start a door-to-door mortling round three I loopwestern housing estates.
Penalty Francis, Dick 1997
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Polly went out through the back of fice to retrieve her car and drive home, which I understood was a house in a wood outside the town, and my father and I, bolting everything securely, climbed the steep little staircase and slept utldisturbed until Saturday mortling.
Penalty Francis, Dick 1997
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