▪ I. carling1, carline
(ˈkɑːlɪŋ, -lɪn)
[Of uncertain etymology: in mod.F. carlingue ‘the step of a mast, the peece of timber whereinto the foot thereof enters’ (Cotgr.), (according to Littré from English); Pg., Sp., It. carlinga. Icel. kerling (in the þulur), as if the same word as carline1.]
1. Naut. One of the pieces of timber about 5 inches square in section, lying fore and aft under the deck of a ship, with their ends let culvertail-wise into the beams. ‘On and athwart these the ledges rest, whereon the planks of the deck and other portions of carpentry are made fast’ (Smyth Word-bk.).
| 1611 Cotgr. s.v. Aileurs, Our Ship-wrights name them Comings or Carlings. 1627 Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 7 Carlings..lieth along the ship from beame to beame. 1775 Falch Day's Diving Vess. 5 These stanchions were again supported with cross beams or carlings in the middle of the chamber. 1804 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. II. 325 The first explosion..struck them against the carlings of the upper deck, so as to stun them. 1840 R. Dana Bef. Mast xxxi. 119 The water dropping from the beams and carlines. c 1850 Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 103 The carlings by the side of, and for the support of the mast..are much larger than the rest. 1863 Times 19 Mar. 14/2 Iron carlines. |
2. dial. (see quot.).
| 1875 Robinson Whitby Gloss., Carlin, or Carelin, the portable beam beneath a hatchway in the floor, for giving cross-support to the hatch-lid. |
3. carling-knee, a piece of timber lying transversely from the ship's side to the hatchway, serving to sustain the deck between the two.
| 1626 Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 30 Carling-knees, for the Dauid. 1627 ― Seaman's Gram. ii. 7 The Carling knees..comes thwart the ship from the sides of the Hatches way. 1704 in J. Harris Lex Techn. 1867 in Smyth. |
▪ II. carling2
(ˈkɑːlɪŋ)
In 6 carline, 7 carlin.
[Possibly f. care in Care Sunday + -ling. Peas, parched, or otherwise prepared, appear to have been long associated with Lent: see Brand ‘Mid-Lent Sunday’, and Palsgrave 652, ‘I parche pesyn, as folkes use in Lent, je grasle des poys.’ This being so, carl v.2 would be from carling.]
1. (See quots.)
| 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 93 a, The perched or burstled peasen which ar called in Northumberland Carlines. a 1724 in Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 90 There lads and lasses..Will feast..On sybows, and rifarts and carlings. c 1746 J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) Lanc. Dial. Gloss., Carlings, peas boiled on Care-Sunday. 1875 [see carl n.2 1]. |
2. Carling Sunday, the fifth Sunday in Lent, on which it was customary to eat parched peas.
| c 1680 in Law Mem. 191 note, [Protest of the Gibbites] They solemnly renounce..‘old wives fables and bye words, as Palm-Sunday, Carlin-Sunday..etc.’ 1777 Brand Pop. Antiq. (1849) I. 112. 1786 Gentleman's Mag., In Northumberland the day is called Carling Sunday. The yeomanry..steep peas, and afterwards parch them, and eat them on the afternoon of that day, calling them carlings. 1825 Hone Every-day Bk. I. 378 Care Sunday is the fifth Sunday from Shrove Tuesday..It is also called Carle Sunday, and in some parts Carling Sunday. |
▪ III. carling3
var. of carline.