Noun: merling
| Singular | merling |
| Plural | merlings |
Sample Sentences
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1995, Maryanne Kowaleski, footnote, Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter, page 310,
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The types were cod, conger eel, common eel, dried fish (most probably cod and hake), hake, herring, lamprey, ling, mackerel, merling (whiting), mulwell, pike, pilchard, pollack, porpoise, ray, salmon, stockfish (probably cod), sturgeon, and whiting; they arrived fresh, dried, salted, or smoked.
Nouns inflected like merling
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English merlynge, from Old French merlenc, from Latin merula. See: Middle English Nouns '
merlynge', Latin Nouns '
merula'.