n. A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking.
n. Alternative form of carlin (old woman)
n. Alternative form of care, used in Carling Sunday or Care Sunday.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The Sunday before Palm Sunday; the fifth Sunday in Lent, commonly known as Passion Sunday. It was an old custom to eat a certain kind of peas on that day.
n. [l. c] plural The peas eaten on Passion Sunday; “grey peas steeped all night in water, and fried next day in butter” (Brockett).
n. See carline.
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