▪ I. sandling1
(ˈsændlɪŋ)
Also 5 sandel-, sawndelynge.
[f. sand n.2 + -ling1.]
† 1. = sand-eel 1. Obs.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 441/1 Sandel, or sandelynge, fische, auguilla arenalis. c 1460 Ibid. (Winchester MS.), Sawndel, or sawndelynge. 1526 Househ. Exp. Sir T. Le Strange (B.M. Add. MS. 27448, lf. 30 b), Item, in whytyngs and sandlyngs, xid. |
2. A small flat-fish; a dab.
| 1611 Cotgr. Barbue,..a kind of lesse Turbot, or Turbot⁓like fish, called by some, a Dab, or Sandling. 1694 Motteux Rabelais iv. lx. 236 Dabs and Sand[l]ings. 1834 A. Smart Rhymes 90 (E.D.D.) Down by the Watermou' to wade An' howk for sandlings side by side Wi' nimble hand. 1907 Nation (N.Y.) 5 Oct. 13/1 Dabs or sandlings with the white side semi-transparent. |
▪ II. sandling2 local.
(ˈsændlɪŋ)
[f. sand n.2 + -ling1.]
(See quots.)
| 1794 A. Young Agric. Suffolk 12 The title of sandling being given peculiarly to the country south of the line of Woodbridge and Orford, where a large extent of poor, and even blowing sands is found. Ibid. 42. 1847 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VIII. ii. 265 The eastern maritime sandy districts or sandlings, and the north-west sandy districts or fieldings. |
▪ III. sandling
var. sandaling, sanderling.