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nursling

[nurs-ling] / ˈnɜrs lɪŋ /


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Other times, the older nursling will naturally decide to stop.

From Washington Post Dec. 12, 2022

Being “a native and nursling of the moors”, Emily had made a book that was “hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials”.

From The Guardian Jul. 21, 2018

In Phoenix, the nursling Journal faces tough competition from Eugene C. Pulliam's aggressive Republic, with its competent, extensive news coverage and its sustained interest in Phoenix' phenomenal growth.

From Time Magazine Archive

She took her nursling into the country, to the Banu Mazin, where the Prophet went frequently to see his son.

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet

So she staid at home, the aged mother, And she rock’d the nursling in the cradle.

From Servian Popular Poetry by John Bowring




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