bearling
nounEtymology From Middle English berling, equivalent to bear + -ling.
1
Diminutive A small, young, or juvenile bear.
- 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, […]1871, “May-Day among the Mules”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round:
- Synonyms
- bear cub, bearlet, bear-whelp