winterling

Definitions

A yearling animal, typically one born in the winter.

Examples

“Under the grey skies, the rain⟳ and the sleet of January, few more cheerless scenes could be found than the moorland and the morass within it; […] Quick to accept⟳ Nature's bounty for the winterlings, the otter, when satisfied that no eye observed her, took them between her lips, carried them from the gloomy hover, and laid them on a tussock which screened her where she crouched, ready to protect⟳ them.”

“In the river / there are cold things: / some alive, winterlings, / hibernating in the way one sleeps in moving water, / and some stones.”

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