stripling : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stripling	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for stripling
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stripling n a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stripling \Strip"ling\, n. [Dim. of strip; as if a small strip from the main stock or steam.] A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. --1 Sam. xvii. 56.