castling

tornitus, linnoitus puhekieltä An abortion, or a premature birth.
1646: Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon the urine in a castling’s bladder — Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5
puhekieltä The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
A miniature cast or mould.
2009, Danielle Devon, Divinity in Chains - Page 6:

From the Celeste's own image was the first castling molded. A soft, delicate creature of flesh and blood she would call Woman. So that Her castlings may never feel the loneliness she Herself did suffer, she bestowed woman with a mate ...

... shift for themselves, and seek out new habitations; such castlings might in their waudring throughout the South Sea (most of the Oriental Islands being formerly inhabited by by their Off-spring) fall with the coast of Term Primitive Language.