† 1. Contemptuously for ELDER sb.3 4. Obs.
1606. Bp. W. Barlow, Serm. (1607), A 3 b. Euery … Ceremonie which, in the Cockpit of Elderlings, is concluded to be Poperie, is not so.
2. An elderly person.
1863. Mark Lemon, Wait for End, xix. (1866), 237. The two elderlings began to lament their situation.
