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Bantling vs Cantling - What's the difference?

bantling | cantling |

As a noun bantling

is an infant or young child.

As a verb cantling is

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bantling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An infant or young child.
  • * 1809 , Washington Irving (as Dietrich Knickerbocker), A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=774826296&textreg=2&query=+bantling&id=eaf213v1]
    • And I even question whether any tender virgin, who was accidentally and unaccountably enriched with a bantling , would save her character at parlour fire-sides and evening tea-parties, by ascribing the phenomenon to a swan, a shower of gold, or a river god.
  • * 1841 , James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Deerslayer/Chapter_1]
  • *:"You!--half-grown, venison-hunting bantling !..."

    • Synonyms

    * babe * brat

    cantling

    English

    Verb

    (head)