reckling
noun/ˈɹɛklɪŋ/
Etymology From reck + -ling.
1
Archaic A weak child or animal.
- O ay, what say ye to Sir Valence, him / Whose kinsman left him watcher o'er his wife / And two fair babes, and went to distant lands; / Was one year gone, and on returning found / Not two but three: there lay the reckling, one / But one hour old! What said the happy sire?1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 130:
2
Archaic A reckless person.