What is "dwarfling"

Usage examples of "dwarfling".

They had made him into this hunchbacked dwarfling as if molding him in a press, die-cut from a cast of his progenitor.

Better, I say, since ye was but a stubble-chinned dwarfling when we was pushed out.

Then he managed to land on the coast marked Syria, where he shoved aside the dwarflings Canaan and Israel.