eeling

English

Verb

eeling

  1. present participle and gerund of eel

Noun

eeling (countable and uncountable, plural eelings)

  1. (uncountable) Fishing for eels.
  2. (countable) A young eel, or elver.
    • 2010, Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, page 151:
      They then develop into eelings or elvers, migrating towards coastlines, where they are found in briny areas: muddy estuaries, tidal marshes, […]
    • 2014, Kieran Egan, Imagination in Teaching and Learning: The Middle School Years, page 97:
      […] when it was shown that what had been taken for young eelings in the adult's womb were simply parasitic worms.
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