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Yearling vs Bearling - What's the difference?

yearling | bearling |

As nouns the difference between yearling and bearling

is that yearling is an animal that is between one and two years old while bearling is (diminutive) a small, young, or juvenile bear; bear cub.

yearling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An animal that is between one and two years old.
  • A racehorse that is considered to be one year old until a subsequent January 1st.

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    bearling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (diminutive) A small, young, or juvenile bear; bear cub.
  • * 1871 , Charles Dickens, All the year round :
    • While waiting at the inn up drove a Pau acquaintance in the person of the Marquis de Che- rizet, 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, [...]