hareling

plural harelings · alternative hare-ling

1. rareA young or diminutive hare.

   I'm coming, I'm coming, the nice old stoat, who is so fond of tender harelings.

   1886, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne, Friends and Foes from Fairy Land, page 352

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   In central Finland first-year children are greeted with "Hello, big-eyed, long eared harelings", using a dialect word for a young hare born in August, […]

   1978, Leea Virtanen, Children's Lore, page 67

   The family's proliferating rabbit population was memorialized in The Hareling, a children's book done as a cottage project, with Ed producing the text - about a newborn rabbit found in the fields — to accompany Helene's drawings.

   2002, Tom Clark, Edward Dorn: A World of Difference, page 327

   The hare, the hare-kin, Old Big-bum, Old Bouchart, The hare-ling, the frisky one, […]

   2014, Nick Groom, The Seasons