stripling
Speech parts
1. stripling - Noun
2. Stripling - Proper noun
Meaning
A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
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The organization of his ideas was all wrong; I was drawn to the memory of myself -- a mere stripling of a girl -- the day I learned that the shortest distance between any two points was a great circle.
Thee at the ferry Oxford riders blithe, Returning home on summer-nights, have met Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe, Trailing in the cool stream thy fingers wet, As the punt's rope chops round.
Other than that, Stripling found little trouble until the sixth inning, when he hit Starling Marte with a pitch and allowed a run-scoring double by Christian Walker.
Dodgers RHP Ross Stripling (6-1, 1.76 ERA) squares off against Cubs LHP Jon Lester (8-2, 2.28 ERA) on Wednesday afternoon in the series finale.
Dr. Scott Stripling, head of the current excavation at biblical Shiloh, exhibits a find.
LHP Derek Holland will start against RHP Ross Stripling.