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brandling
Word definitions for brandling in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The young or parr of the salmon, so named from its markings being, as it were, branded 2 A small, red worm used for bait in fresh-water fishing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brandling \Brand"ling\, Brandlin \Brand"lin\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Branlin , fish and worm.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Brandling is a surname of English origin. People with that name include: Brandling of Newcastle , an English family of politicians, merchants, and land and coal owners :* Sir Francis Brandling (15951641), English landowner and politician :* Robert Brandling ...
Usage examples of brandling.
But for the Trout, the dew-worm, which some also call the lob-worm, and the brandling, are the chief.
And for a brandling, he is usually found in an old dunghill, or some very rotten place near to it, but most usually in cow-dung, or hog's-dung, rather than horse-dung, which is somewhat too hot and dry for that worm.
But you must not put your brandlings above an hour in water, and then put them into fennel, for sudden use: but if you have time, and purpose to keep them long, then they be best preserved in an earthen pot, with good store of moss, which is to be fresh every three or four days in summer, and every week or eight days in winter.
And when your worms, especially the brandling, begins to be sick and lose of his bigness, then you may recover him, by putting a little milk or cream, about a spoonful in a day, into them, by drops on the moss.
And note, that when the knot, which is near to the middle of the brandling, begins to swell, then he is sick.