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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Stripling

/strĭp'-lĭng/ · Strip·ling · IPA /ˈstɹɪplɪŋ/
01 n. A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
  1. 1.
    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.