lamb
- noun
- /læm/
- Each spring, the pasture is filled with playful lambs exploring their surroundings.
- a little lamb
- newborn lambs
- ewes and lambs
So I'm about lamb, lamb, but it is a baby animal.
- So I'm about lamb, lamb, but it is a baby animal.
- Mares eat oats and doze eat oats, and little lambs eat Ivy.
- And he's, he looks and he says there was a, a lamb, a ram caught in the thicket.
- And Andrew, they would sacrifice goats or lambs or something like that.
- The neural plate doesn't form, the brain doesn't form properly, and the lambs are born looking like this.
- You know, it's the time of being reborn like the little lamb in the field.
- Well, the only thing I've done for real is deliver a lamb.
- So fat lamp shall bown wheatus hewis the lamb must be of a white color.
- God made lions and they made lambs.
Examples
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Mary, Mary had a little lamb.
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You know, it's the time of being reborn like the little lamb in the field.
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You should know that lamb is my favorite.
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Could you be a lamb and have a seat?
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It's an actual lamb just out here in the desert.
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Mary had a little lamb.
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When he saw me go for the rope, he dropped the lamb and ran over to us.
Fiction book (1992) -
This is a lamb in tea sauce.
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Apparently the Mitchells lost six lambs this morning.
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My poor lamb.
Synonyms
A farm animal with thick wool raised for meat, milk or wool
A young sheep under one year old that is not yet sheared
A very young lamb often used as a name for someone you love
A young sheep less than one year old that farmers have not yet sheared
A small young lamb people speak of in a loving way
A children's word for a young sheep used when talking to it
A farm animal kept for its wool, meat, or skin
Idioms
Compounds
A cut of lamb with the breastbone and meat around it, often roasted or used in stews
- Specialized
A cut of lamb with the backbone and meat on both sides, roasted as one piece
How Young
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lamb comes from an old German word meaning 'young sheep', so English has called a baby sheep a 'lamb' for many centuries.