barlingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

barling (plural barlings)

1. (UK dialectal) The smallest pig in a litter; runt.

語源 2

From 中期英語 barling, berling, from Old Norse berlingr (“bar, pole”) (found in berlings-áss (“bar, beam, plank, rail”)), a diminutive derived from Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”); equivalent to bar +‎ -ling. Cognate with Swedish bärling (“pole, bar”).

別の表記

• berling

名詞

barling (plural barlings)

1. (rare or UK dialectal, Scotland) A pole; (carpentry) the cross rafter of a roof.
   • 1970, Admiralty Manual of Hydrographic Surveying - Volume 2:

     A tripod can be formed of three hop poles or barlings. The former can be laid in depths up to 2^ metres and the latter in depths up to about 5 metres at low water if the tidal range does not exceed about 3 metres.

   • 1981, Ann Hughes, W. R. Owens, Seventeenth-century England, a Changing Culture:

     [...] one pair of fetters, one pair of couplings, 2 barlings [poles], 2s 6d; one saddle, one bridle, one panel, 12s; one corn hutch and 1 chaff bin, 6s 8d; one plough, one pair of harness and one coulter, 2 plough sha-[rest torn] with chains, 14s.

   • 2005, V. D. Golubchikova, Z. Í. Khvtísíashvílí, E. R. Akbalʹi︠a︡n, Severnai︠a︡ ėnt︠s︡iklopedii︠a︡:

     On shallow waters they moved upstream using small barlings; [...]

参考

• sile

アナグラム

• bringal, glabrin, blaring