carling

plural carlings

1. alternativeAlternative form of carline (“old woman”).

plural carlings

1. nauticalA piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking.

plural carlings · alternative carlin · alternative carl · alternative carle

1. A cultivar of field pea or maple pea, dried, soaked, boiled, then fried.

   Synonyms: carling pea

plural Carlings

1. alternativeAlternative form of Caroling (“a descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian”)

   Hugh Capet, Duke of France, mounted the throne of the Carlings in 987.

   1893, The Bay State Monthly, page 414

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   Lothar died soon after, in 986; and though his son Louis V. was crowned, he only lived a year, and when he died in 987, the great counts and dukes met in consultation with the chief of the clergy, and agreed that, as the Counts of Paris were the real heads of the State, and nobody cared for the Carlings, it would be better to do like the Germans, and pass over the worn-out Carlings, who spoke old Frank, while the Paris Counts spoke the altered Latin, which came to be called French.

   1882, Charlotte M. Yonge, A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations, volume 2, page 569

   The Carlings, on the other hand, had few possessions, but unlimited pretensions to empire, and stood forth as the opponents of the growing spirit of feudalism, the subdivision of property and jurisdiction, and as the upholders of unity, centralisation, and Roman traditions.

   1884, The Academy, volume 25, page 413

   With the successors of Charles the Great the dynasty of the Carlings began its downward course.

   1897, Guy Carleton Lee, Hincmar: An Introduction to the Study of the Revolution in the Organization of the Church in the Ninth Century, page 238

plural Carlings

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. countableuncountableA township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
3. countableuncountableA commune in Moselle department, Grand Est, France.