What is "cubling"

Usage examples of "cubling".

While the wave of light swept on to encounter and hold another dire sight, Swiftfoot before the three kittens, the cubling being at least half her size, facing with bared teeth and claws two more of the evil smelling creatures of the dark.

Then a shadow crossed it and she saw as plainly as if she stood before them the form of the wildcat, her two kittens, and the snow cubling she had adopted.

Mevva, Vvoks ancient, one-eared cub-trainer, still loved to freeze the hearts of newly emerged nurselings with the story of how Seska had killed two successive cublings in the same afternoon when they failed to respond appropriately to direct orders.

The wiry old Teller who never harassed anyone, not even cublings just accepted for training, who just told the old tales and let them be?

What have they told youthat we slaughter cublings for our food, and grind medicines from their bones?

These cublings were so young, they had most likely never even seen an adult male before a few days ago.

It was late in the year to be receiving cublings, but perhaps these had been born out of season.

Although he did not look around, he heard the scuffle of small claws as the cublings pressed up close behind him to get a better sniff.

Their captor muttered an aside to the two cublings in the flickering torchlight and sent them running ahead into the hold, then motioned with her spear for Nisk and the silent Black/on/black standing behind him to enter as well.

From earliest memory, all cublings were taught no adult male ever returned to the female territory of the Lines.

In the middle of a lushly appointed room crouched the same two chastened cublings they had encountered on the ridge.

Behind, she heard the gray-and-white cublings labored breathing as she struggled up the talus-clogged incline.

She gazed into the pool, at her own shimmering paleness reflected beside the cublings frightened gray-and-white, then knelt and let the strength of this place seep through her, the immensity of it, the trueness, until she was as still within as the surrounding stone.

Vexk thought of the age-mates she had left behind, the cublings she would never bear.

She had given five living cublings to Qartt, as well as two more who had not drawn breath.