cockling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of cockle

noun

1. A young, small, or immature cock.

   “These cocklings cocker'd we bewail too late, When that we see our off-spring gaily bent, Women manwood, and men effeminate.”

   “Take warning in time, cocklings; look sharp — but not in this direction, if you please.'”

   “'That ere our pretty Cocklings learn to crow, To pamper Lust they must to Market go?”