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shaftling
† ˈshaftling Obs. [Perh. f. shaft n.2 + -ling, with allusion to the shape. Cf. shafflin.] The stickleback.1558 Gesner's Hist. Anim. IV. 896 De Pungitio... Angli Scharplyng uel Shaftlyng nominant. 1572 Huloet (ed. Higins), Shaftling, sharplinge, stickling, sticklebanke, or banstickle, aculeatus pisci... Oxford English Dictionary
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sharpling
sharpling (ˈʃɑːplɪŋ) Also 6 shapling. [f. sharp a. + -ling1.] † 1. ? A kind of nail. Obs.1415 in Rogers Agric. & Prices (1882) III. 447 Sharplings. 1456 in Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees) 67, cc sharplynges. 1465 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 201 Item, for a quarter of sharpenge [sic: ? an error]... Oxford English Dictionary
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shafflin
† ˈshafflin Obs. rare. Also 6 shafflynge (in Continental authors schafoling, schafling, -lyng). [Perh. the same word with shaftling, though applied to a different fish. Cf. shaft-eel.] A kind of eel.1553 Belon De Aquatil. 273 Anglorum autem pisces..hisce nominibus agnoscuntur,..Eils, Lampres, Schafo... Oxford English Dictionary
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stickling
stickling ? Obs. (ˈstɪklɪŋ) Also 4 stikelinge, 5 styk(e)lyng(e, stekelyng, 6 styckelyng, sticklyng. [ME. stikeling(e = (M)Du. stekeling, MHG. stichelinc (mod.G. stichling, stechling), f. WGer. *stikil, *stekal (see stickle a.) + -ing3.] = stickleback.a 1387 Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 12 Aspiatil... Oxford English Dictionary
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