Kling

plural Klings

1. A surname.

1. archaicArchaic form of Kalinga.

1. archaicpluralplural onlyArchaic form of Kalinga.

plural Klings

1. alternativeAlternative form of Keling.

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   The native Malays are usually fishermen and boatmen, and they form the main body of the police. The Portuguese of Malacca supply a large number of the clerks and smaller merchants. The Klings of Western India are a numerous body of Mahometans, and, with many Arabs, are petty merchants and shopkeepers. The grooms and washermen are all Bengalees, and there is a small but highly respectable class of Parsee merchants.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 31