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she bear noun An adult female bear. See also she.

1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 80 You'll git some o' that meanness shuck outen you if you tackle an old she-bear to-morrow  1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) I run on an old she bear and two cubs. I killed the old’un and one of the cubs. 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.

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