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aswail - What does it mean?

Definition of 'aswail'

English

Noun

  • (dated) The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus ) of India.
  • * Colonel Sykes
  • An Aswail brought to me from the woods when quite young, and which lived some time in my possession, fed by choice almost exclusively upon roast mutton and fowl; rejecting all fruits and vegetables.
  • * 1953 , Dirk Pieter Erdbrink, A review of fossil and recent bears of the Old World: volume 1
  • (Webster 1913)