Definition of "marling" [marling]

• Present participle of marl. (verb)

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• "Allen, who introduced 'marling' in Norfolk, were all country-gentlemen, and it is from them that he expects improvement."
• "Nothing in him; no substance, madam; I knew him as a youngster, and I could have tossed him on a marling-spike."
• "One of the older missionaries frowned at this intelligence, marling it down as one more proof of their doctor's essentially trivial attitude toward life, but his adverse opinion was not reported to his companions, because from a point forward of the Thetis a new board swept into view, and this one bore not a mere swimmer, but a nymph, a nude symbolization of all the pagan islands in the seven seas."