Troutling

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, So 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 […]

‘[…] I dare say some trout in the river—hey?—the stream looks lively.’ ‘Middling, only—poor gray troutlings, Sir—not a soul cares to fish it but myself,’ he answered.

They winnowed the creek with basketwork weirs for every finger-long troutling that came down in it,

‘[…] Did this Choxy do anything else, except look at you like a pike at a troutling?’