bawl
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bawl verb Of an animal: to cry out loudly, often but not necessarily in alarm or distress; of a calf: to cry for its mother. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly Midland”]
1926 Hunnicutt Twenty Years 183 We had not gone far until I heard the bear bawl. 1956 Hall Coll (Jones Cove TN) Then he heared a cub bear go to bawlin’. Then he saw the old she bear come runnin’ out of the laurel. And Styles throwed the gun down and the old she bear run after him. 1978 Montgomery White Pine Coll Dad never would wean a calf when the sign was in the head. He said it’d bawl itself to death ... He never did have calves to bawl, you know.