'Fatling' definitions:

Definition of 'Fatling'

From: GCIDE
  • Fatling \Fat"ling\, n. [Fat + -ling.] A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food. [1913 Webster]
  • He sacrificed oxen and fatlings. --2 Sam. vi. 13. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Fatling'

From: Easton
  • Fatling
  • A fatted animal for slaughter (2 Sam. 6:13; Isa. 11:6; Ezek. 39:18. Comp. Matt. 22:4, where the word used in the original, sitistos, means literally "corn-fed;" i.e., installed, fat).
  • Ps. 66:15 (Heb. meah, meaning "marrowy," "fat," a species of sheep).
  • 1 Sam. 15:9 (Heb. mishneh, meaning "the second," and hence probably "cattle of a second quality," or lambs of the second birth, i.e., autmnal lambs, and therfore of less value).