eeling

English

Verb

eeling

1. present participle and gerund of eel

Noun

eeling (countable and uncountable, plural eelings)

1. (uncountable) Fishing for eels.
2. (countable) A young eel, or elver.
   • 2010, Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, page 151:

     They then develop into eelings or elvers, migrating towards coastlines, where they are found in briny areas: muddy estuaries, tidal marshes, […]

   • 2014, Kieran Egan, Imagination in Teaching and Learning: The Middle School Years, page 97:

     […] when it was shown that what had been taken for young eelings in the adult's womb were simply parasitic worms.