"scatterling" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 63:",
          "text": "Long time in peace his realm establishd, / Yet oft annoyd with sundry bordragings / Of neighbour Scots, and forrein scatterlings.",
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          "ref": "1839, Benjamin Disraeli, The Tragedy of Count Alarcos, published 1910, page 388:",
          "text": "But ah! her fatal vengeance Struck to my heart. A banished scatterling I wandered on the earth.",
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          "ref": "1986, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland:",
          "text": "He is surrounded by the sound, the sound / Cattle in the marketplace / Scatterlings and orphanages",
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        "One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond."
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        "(obsolete) One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond."
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  "word": "scatterling"
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