1893 August, Rudyard Kipling, "Seal Lullaby", in "The White Seal", National Review. Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; / Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!
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Flipperling
//ˈflɪpəlɪŋ//
Synonyms for "flipperling"
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There the flipperlings—young seals—are born, and from there, as the ice begins to break up with the spring, they and their parents come floating southwards on huge blocks of ice.
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At last an unwary cod, in flight from the big male, sped close beside the flipperling.
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