Obs. or dial. [perh. f. ALDER sb.1 + -LING.] A term applied to some fresh-water fish, called also dialectally aller-trout.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 283. Gray Trouts … lurk … like the Alderlings under the Roots of great Alders. Ibid., 268. Alderlings are a kind of Fish betwixt a Trout and a Grayling.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 232. Alderling … lie ever in deep water under some old and great Alder.
