Definition of "scatterling" []

• One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The four who lived there -- "Bat and Zilpic, Maunder and Insie, of the Gill" -- had nothing to do with, and little to say to, any of the scatterling folk about them, across the blue distance of the moor."
• "But for the rest, I was sometime a king, and am now a scatterling. '"
• "He trembled at the thought of Arthur meeting this strange, wild, exasperated scatterling -- perhaps on the morrow -- in the very height of his passions."