bearling
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English berling, equivalent to bear + -ling.
Noun
editbearling (plural bearlings)
- (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
editTranslations
editsmall, young, or juvenile bear — see bear cub