beaverling
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Etymology
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From
beaver
+
-ling
.
Noun
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beaverling
(
plural
beaverlings
)
(
diminutive
)
A
small
,
young
, or
juvenile
beaver
.
1885
,
The Westminster review
:
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.
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