Sport´ling

(~lĭng)

A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.

When again the lambkins play -
Pretty sportlings, full of May.

- Philips.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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