Bearling

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small, young, or juvenile bear. diminutive

    "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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bear cubbear-whelpbearlet

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"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, […]"

Etymology

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

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