feebling

English

Verb

feebling

1. present participle and gerund of feeble

Noun

feebling (plural feeblings)

1. A feeble person.
   • 1878, Stephen Joseph Mac Kenna, Brave Men in Action:

     Our sergeant did not, therefore, as might have been expected, retain the hale men to fight and send on the feeblings, but just the reverse; and the only disabled soldiers pushed forward were the few in the waggons […]

   • 1915, Jack London, The Star Rover:

     You are feeblings. I am your master. You can't bring a squeal out of me. You think it remarkable, for you know how easily you would squeal.