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bearlings

bearlings is the plural of bearling.

Meaning of bearling

Noun

bearling (plural bearlings)

  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

Questions about bearlings

What is bearlings the plural of?
Bearlings is the plural of bearling.

Words near bearlings in the dictionary

  1. bearlets
  2. Bearley
  3. bearlike
  4. bearlikeness
  5. bearling
  6. bearlings
  7. bearly
  8. Bearman
  9. Bearmans
  10. bearmeal
  11. bearmode

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