Castling vs Cantling - What's the difference?
castling | cantling |
(obsolete) An abortion, or a premature birth.
* 1646': Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon the urine in a '''castling ’s bladder — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica , Book II, ch 5
(obsolete) The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
A miniature cast or mould.
* 2009 , Danielle Devon, Divinity in Chains - Page 6 :
One that is cast.
* 1678 , Claude Saumaise, Funus linguae hellenisticae :
(chess) A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle .
As a noun castling
is (obsolete) an abortion, or a premature birth or castling can be (chess) a move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle .As a verb cantling is
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Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- From the Celeste's own image was the first castling' molded. A soft, delicate creature of flesh and blood she would call Woman. So that Her ' castlings may never feel the loneliness she Herself did suffer, she bestowed woman with a mate [...]
- [...] shift for themselves, and seek out new habitations; such castlings might in their waudring throughout the South Sea (most of the Oriental Islands being formerly inhabited by by their Off-spring) fall with the coast of Term Primitive Language.