[f. CAROL v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. CAROL.
c. 1300. K. Alis., 1045. At theo feste was trumpyng … Carolyng, and turneieyng.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Chan. Yem. Prol. & T., 792. Was never … lady lustier in carolynge.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccxix. 279. On a Sonday after dyner … ther was great daunsyng and karolynge.
1596. Spenser, Heav. Beauty, 265. Carolings Of Gods high praise.
a. 1834. Coleridge, Lit. Rem., I. 82 (L.). The sweet carolings of As you like it.
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, xxiv. (1874), 256. Perhaps, one day … the budding of hedges, and carolling of birds, and singing of liberated streams, will call him to kindly resurrection.
