"troutling" meaning in English

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          "text": "1747, Charles Jarvis (translator), The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, Dublin: Peter Wilson, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 173,\nSo there be many troutlings, answered Don Quixote they may serve me instead of one trout; for I would as willingly be paid eight single reals, as one real of eight: and the rather, because perhaps these troutlings are like veal, which is preferable to beef […]"
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          "ref": "1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 20, in The House by the Churchyard, London: Macmillan, published 1899, page 95",
          "text": "‘[…] I dare say some trout in the river—hey?—the stream looks lively.’\n‘Middling, only—poor gray troutlings, Sir—not a soul cares to fish it but myself,’ he answered.",
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        {
          "ref": "1904, Mary Hunter Austin, The Basket Woman, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 27",
          "text": "They winnowed the creek with basketwork weirs for every finger-long troutling that came down in it,",
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          "text": "2012, Simon Brett, Blotto, Twinks and the Bootlegger’s Moll, New York: Felony & Mayhem Press, 2014, Chapter 15, p. 110,\n‘ […] Did this Choxy do anything else, except look at you like a pike at a troutling?’"
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        "A young trout."
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        {
          "word": "troutlet"
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "young trout",
          "word": "trutido"
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          "word": "truitelle"
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          "text": "1747, Charles Jarvis (translator), The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, Dublin: Peter Wilson, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 173,\nSo there be many troutlings, answered Don Quixote they may serve me instead of one trout; for I would as willingly be paid eight single reals, as one real of eight: and the rather, because perhaps these troutlings are like veal, which is preferable to beef […]"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "young trout",
      "word": "trutido"
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  "word": "troutling"
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