Definition of "devilling" [devilling]

• Present participle of devil. (verb)
• The pupillage of a prospective advocate or barrister (noun)

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• "The incident justifies the inference that the services of junior counsel to senior barristers -- services at the present time termed 'devilling' -- were formerly remunerated with cash payments."
• "By "devilling" the faculty, college men cemented their loyalty to one another and sorted out who among them was suited to leadership."
• "He had, during the last four years, done a good deal of "devilling"; he had attended at the Old"