Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of eel
nouneeling (countable and uncountable, plural eelings)
plural eelings
- uncountableFishing for eels.
- countableA young eel, or elver.
[…] when it was shown that what had been taken for young eelings in the adult's womb were simply parasitic worms.
2014, Kieran Egan, Imagination in Teaching and Learning: The Middle School Years, page 971 more example
They then develop into eelings or elvers, migrating towards coastlines, where they are found in briny areas: muddy estuaries, tidal marshes, […]
2010, Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, page 151
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