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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 fat·ling /ˈfætlɪŋ/
 肥畜

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fat·ling n.  A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food.
    He sacrificed oxen and fatlings.   --2 Sam. vi. 13.
 

From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Fatling
    (1.) A fatted animal for slaughter (2 Sam. 6:13; Isa. 11:6;
    Ezek. 39:18. Comp. Matt. 22:4, where the word used in the
    original, sitistos, means literally "corn-fed;" i.e., installed,
    fat). (2.) Ps. 66:15 (Heb. meah, meaning "marrowy," "fat," a
    species of sheep). (3.) 1 Sam. 15:9 (Heb. mishneh, meaning "the
    second," and hence probably "cattle of a second quality," or
    lambs of the second birth, i.e., autmnal lambs, and therfore of
    less value).