eggling

noun

1. (archaic, uncountable)The sale of eggs; the trade of an eggler.

   “No eggler will allow eggs to be contaminated, because he wants to sell at the best price he can get […] If the House says it is, then in my opinion the majority of those people must get out of eggling […]”

   “The death of Dobbin of old age had put an end to his master's eggling, for he had no capital with which to buy another horse.”

2. A small, miniature, undersized, or underdeveloped egg.

   “"Ode X" in 1834, Charles L. S. Jones, American Lyrics One Lovling scarcely's fledg'd. One, yet, An eggling still remains; A third, from forth the broken shell, In chirping notes, complains.”

   “But now the little Other eggling was making loud peeping sounds. It was hungry.”