bearling

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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, […]

Synonyms

• bear cub
• bearlet
• bear-whelp

Translations

small, young, or juvenile bear — see bear cub

Anagrams

• balinger, blearing, rebaling, ringable