Meaning of reckling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A weak child or animal.
   archaic
2. A reckless person.
   archaic

Examples

“O ay, what say ye to Sir Valence, him / Whose kinsman left him watcher o'er his wife / And two fair babes, and went to distant lands; / Was one year gone, and on returning found / Not two but three: there lay the reckling, one / But one hour old! What said the happy sire?”

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