beaverling

noun

beaverling

noun

Etymology From beaver + -ling.

1

Diminutive A small, young, or juvenile beaver.

The wife stumbled into the water, and as soon as her loot was wet, she immediately resumed her old shape as a beaver, her son became a beaverling, and the brooklet, changing to a roaring river, bore them to the lake.1885, The Westminster review:

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