beaverling

English

Etymology

From beaver +‎ -ling.

Noun

beaverling (plural beaverlings)

  1. (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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