bearling

From Middle English berling, equivalent to bear +‎ -ling.

bearling (plural bearlings)

1. (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, […]

• blearing, ringable