bearling

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From Middle English berling, equivalent to bear +‎ -ling.

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bearling (plural bearlings)

  1. (diminutive) A small, young, or juvenile bear.
    • 1871, “May-Day among the Mules”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round:
      While waiting at the inn up drove a Pau acquaintance in the person of the Marquis de Cherizet, out of whose pony-carriage was lifted a square box, which proved to contain a poor little bearling of about a month old, whose mother had been shot, and itself captured, []

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