troutling

[Eng. trout; dim in. suff. -ling.] A little trout; a troutlet. "By the dark pool where the troutling Glances from his stony bed." Blackie: Lays of Highlands, p. 98. [Fr. trouver= to Trôu-vêre', *Trôu-veur, s. find.] A name given to the ancient poets of Northern France, and corresponding to the Troubadours of the South. Their compositions are more of an epic or narrative character. [TROUBADOUR.]