townling

1. (now rare) A small or insignificant town; a townletExamples: "Some perturbed spirits in that little townling are in distress at the agitation awakened and widely spreading on the Woman question. The editor of the Village News comforts them by the assurance that Mount Vernon is no more prepared for the radical measure of female suffrage than other towns."; "We are annoyed perpetually with lengthened discussions as to the geography of a trumpery townling, or the arrangements of some trivial and indecisive siege."; "And close at hand, too, lay St. Aubin; a mere townling; nothing to be called excitement stirring its quiet streets; the daily routine of existence repeating itself with clock-like monotony throughout the year."archaic