Meaning

(UK, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Cast iron..

Definitions by Sense

1. (UK, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Cast iron.
2. (UK, chiefly Scotland, by extension) A small cauldron, or rounded pot, typically, but not always, made of cast iron.
3. (UK, chiefly Scotland) A small cast iron ball.

Example Sentences

Scots ploughs, very neatly made, and covered with yetling, are the only kind used in this parish.

Rollers are of different kinds, stone, yetling, wood. Each of these has its advantages.

Having afterwards resolved upon renewing the armament, they instructed the Dean of Guild " to sell the auld pieces callit heidsticks being in the steeple to the gritest avail, and wair and bestow the money gotten therefor upon sufficient yetling ordinance to the common use of the burgh."

A caller burn runs wimpling clear, Out o'er its rocky bed ; Where sits the rural yetling chair, For youth and hoary head, To rest themselves beside the stream And hear its murmuring.

Still, it occurs to me that Yetlington is more probably indebted to its name from being the spot where " yetlings" were made. To this day the metal pot used by the muggers is known by that appellation in its immediate neighhourhood, and bears a striking resemblance to a sacred utensil used during the sacrifices of the Romans.

Mother had lifted the yetling off the fire, and left it there," pointing to the middle of the room ; " and she comes running along and tumbles in.

A bronze yetling, or tripod caldron, with an angular handle at each side.

Baking in the turf-burning areas of the North Yorkshire Moors was also undertaken in a yetling, a cylindrical cast-iron vessel perhaps a foot in diameter and five inches in height which hung over the fire from a reckon-hook.

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• yetlings
• yetlin

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