mortling

From mort +‎ -ling. Compare morkin.

mortling (countable and uncountable, plural mortlings)

1. (UK, dialect, archaic) An animal, such as a sheep, that has died of disease or privation.
2. (UK, archaic) Wool taken from a dead sheep.

• (wool): morling

• “mortling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.