bearling

plural bearlings

1. diminutiveA 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