Meaning of deerling | Babel Free

Definitions

A small, young, or baby deer; fawn.

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Examples

“You will return⟳ after giving birth to your deerling?”

“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?”

“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" [...]”

“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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