sb. (a.) Obs. [app. f. TIRE v.1 + -LING: cf. hireling, shaveling.] A tired person or animal: in quots. attrib. or as adj.: cf. hireling priest, etc.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., III. i. 17. His tyreling iade he fiercely forth did push. Ibid. (1596), VI. vii. 40.

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1599.  Bp. Hall, Sat., IV. iii. 57. Whiles like a tireling jade he lags half-way.

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1613.  J. Dennys, Secr. Angling, I. ix. Neither of Mare nor Gelding let it be; Nor of the tyreling lade that beares the packe.

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