sparling
See also: Sparling
English
Etymology
Akin to German Spierling, Spiering.
Noun
sparling (plural sparlings)
- The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
- A young salmon.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialectal) A tern.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sparling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- graplins, springal