Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bantling

Bantling ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Probably for bandling, from band, and meaning a child wrapped in swaddling bands; or compare German bantling a bastard, from bank bench. Compare Bastard, n.]

A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]
In what out of the way corners genius produces her bantlings. — W. Irving