scatterling

English

Etymology

scatter +‎ -ling

Noun

scatterling (plural scatterlings)

1. (obsolete) One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond.
   • Edmund Spenser

     Long time in peace his realm established,
     Yet oft annoy'd with sundry bordragings
     Of neighbour Scots, and foreign scatterlings.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scatterling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• clatterings