deerling

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English

Etymology

From deer +‎ -ling.

Noun

deerling (plural deerlings)

  1. A small, young, or baby deer; fawn.
    • 1950, G.A. Natesan, The Indian review - Volume 51 - Page 85:
      You will return after giving birth to your deerling?
    • 1989, Hemacandra, Amritlal Savchand Gopani, Surendra Bothara, The Yoga shastra of Hemchandracharya:
      When shall the old king of the herd of deer be smelling my mouth without fear, taking me to be a lifeless thing, when I would be sitting in the forest in the padmasana (lotus pose) with the deerlings sitting in my lap?
    • 1997, Krishan Lal Kalia, Eminent Personalities Of Kashmir:
      He with childlike innocence and simplicity employees the most direct language only to talk to man a man, because his aim is to beckon to him: "Alas, seeing always the deer in the trap in jungle, even then the deerlings get into the crooked snares" [...]
    • 2006, James Clemens, Shadowfall:
      Both girls yelped, falling into each other's arms. But it was only a dwarf deerling, no taller than Dart's waist. Its ears quivered. It stopped on tiny hooves, blind to the three of them, then bounded forward, toward the deadfall. Dart glanced after it.

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