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From flock + -ling.
flockling (plural flocklings)
- (obsolete, rare) A lamb.
1659, Richard Brome, (Please provide the book title or journal name):[…] she takes not so much for curing a thousand mortal People, as I have spent in Turpentine and Tarre to keep my Flocklings cleanly in a Spring time.
