to foal
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8.1
- verb
- /foʊl/
:
parir
- Pa said Ol' Rosie was crazy because when she foaled the first time, her owner left her out in a pasture that backed up to the foothills along the far side of the Ochocco Mountains.
- a mare foaled
- foaling season
Examples
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She has brought in LeGaminette, who is due to foal in several weeks, and Caprice, seven months along.
Fiction book (1993) -
And it's impossible once foaling season starts.
Blog text (4) -
Everybody told me the old girl would never foal.
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And then in another year, they're gonna foal again.
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Okay, so, in 10 months' time, those mares are gonna foal, right?
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- Come and look, the mare's foaled.
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One of the broodmares is foaling.
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Of the thousands of Thoroughbreds foaled every year, only a few, a special few, would ever walk through the morning fog at this track this week.
Fiction book (1995) -
She is timorous as a newly foaled calf.
Fiction book (1994) -
The mare will foal in a few weeks, and we are all excited to see the new arrival.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb foal comes from the same old German word fola meaning 'young horse'. So when a mare foals, she 'gives birth' to a baby horse.