Word of the Day: TIRELING

ETYMOLOGY
apparently from tire (to diminish, give out, come to an end, obs.) + -ling

EXAMPLE
“… So as they gazed after her a while,
Lo where a griesly Foster forth did rush,
Breathing out beastly lust her to defile:
His tyreling iade he fiercely forth did push,
Through thicke and thin, both ouer banke and bush
In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke,
That from his gorie sides the bloud did gush:
Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke,
And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke. …”

From: The Faerie Queene
By Edmund Spenser, 1590