Fatling

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fatling \Fat"ling\, n. [Fat + -ling.]
     A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for
     slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used
     for food.
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           He sacrificed oxen and fatlings.         --2 Sam. vi.
                                                    13.
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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Fatling
     (1.) A fatted animal for slaughter (2 Sam. 6:13; Isa. 11:6;
     Ezek. 39:18. Comp. Matt. 22:4, where the word used in the
     original, sitistos, means literally "corn-fed;" i.e., installed,
     fat). (2.) Ps. 66:15 (Heb. meah, meaning "marrowy," "fat," a
     species of sheep). (3.) 1 Sam. 15:9 (Heb. mishneh, meaning "the
     second," and hence probably "cattle of a second quality," or
     lambs of the second birth, i.e., autmnal lambs, and therfore of
     less value).