[cf. CABAL v. + -ING1.] Petty plotting, intriguing.
a. 1680. Butler, Rem. (1759), I. 425. Their caballing is the same Thing exactly with packing of Cards.
1714. Mandeville, Fab. Bees (1729), II. 34. The Court of Rome is … the best School to learn the Art of Caballing.
1722. Minute-Bk., in A. M‘Kay, Hist. Kilmarnock (1864), 36. To prevent cabbawlling in the fields or elsewhere by the servants.
1866. Cornh. Mag., Oct., 435. It left no room for that petty partisanship and caballing which are the curse of convents.
