[f. as prec. + -LING1.] = prec.
a. 1739. Jarvis, Quix., I. I. ii. If there be many troutlings,… they will supply the place of one trout.
1856. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, I. V. iii. § 13. In using the Spinning-Tackle with the parr-tail or troutling as a bait, it is spun exactly as for trout.
1889. H. C. Pennell, Fishing, 100. The catching and eating of half a dozen troutlings.
