nonce-wd. [f. CROW sb. + -LING.] A little or young crow.
1609. Bp. W. Barlow, Answ. Nameless Cath., 327. A more vaine crowling, bragging it with his borrowed plumes, then that Iacke Daw, which Æsop describes.
1887. Blackw. Mag., Nov., 705/1. He is … ready in a grandmotherly way to think all his crowlings white.
Crowling vbl. sb.: see CROWL v.
