Obs. rare1. [f. as prec. + -LING.] A young friar, a disciple in friarhood.

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1563–87.  Foxe, A. & M. (1583), V. 413. I haue laboured with mine owne hands, and will labor, and will that all my frierlings shall labor and litle of theyr labor, wherby they may support themselues in an honest meane.

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