[f. TIMBER sb.1 + -LING.] A young timber-tree; a sapling.
1787. W. Marshall, Norfolk, I. 99. The timbers, pollards, and timberlings should first be inspected. Ibid. (1796), W. England, I. 83. The ancient law … requires that a certain number of Timberlings should be left standing. Ibid., II. 156. Train up the young stands, or timberlings, so as to give them length of stem.
