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stripling


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stripling  \Strip"ling\,  n.  [Dim.  of  strip;  as  if  a  small  strip 
  from  the  main  stock  or  steam.] 
  A  youth  in  the  state  of  adolescence,  or  just  passing  from 
  boyhood  to  manhood;  a  lad. 
 
  Inquire  thou  whose  son  the  stripling  is  --1  Sam.  xvii. 
  56. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  stripling 
  n  :  a  juvenile  between  the  onset  of  puberty  and  maturity  [syn:  {adolescent}, 
  {teenager}] 




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