English Dictionary

castling

/ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/

noun

(obsolete) An abortion, or a premature birth. / (obsolete) The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season. / A miniature cast or mould. / One that is cast.

The castling of the queen was a tragic event.

意味（1）

(obsolete) An abortion, or a premature birth.

1646: Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon the urine in a castling’s bladder — Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5

意味（2）

(obsolete) The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.

意味（3）

A miniature cast or mould.

From the Celeste's own image was the first castling molded. A soft, delicate creature of flesh and blood she would call Woman. So that Her castlings may never feel the loneliness she Herself did suffer, she bestowed woman with a mate …

意味（4）

One that is cast.

… shift for themselves, and seek out new habitations; such castlings might in their waudring throughout the South Sea (most of the Oriental Islands being formerly inhabited by by their Off-spring) fall with the coast of Term Primitive Language.