car·ling
ˈkärliŋ,
-lə̇n
variants
or less commonly carlin
or carline
plural -s
: a fore-and-aft member supporting a deck of a ship or framing a deck opening where the beams have been cut
—usually used in plural
carling
3 of 3present participle of carl
Examples of carline in a Sentence
Noun (1)
there's no appeasing the auld carline who lives at the far end of the loch
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Noun
Out of the roughly 500 carlines listed in the 2025 NHTSA dataset, each had at minimum 20% of their components imported from outside the U.S. and Canada.
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—Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
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“Carline.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carline. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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