yearling
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6.5
- noun
- /ˈjɪr.lɪŋ/
:
añal
- The farmer chose a healthy yearling to add to his stable of horses.
- yearlings and adults
- yearlings and juveniles
- yearling beef steers
Why not have like, race horses, yearlings there, you know?
- Why not have like, race horses, yearlings there, you know?
- He says maybe you'll be looking at my yearlings over the long pond pastures the next day or so and Erieoth says no Sands Herd was going down fast and I left.
Examples
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I'm gonna need a yearling out of your herd.
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The polled yearling in the pen stood quietly, shaking its head gently now and then.
Fiction book (1997) -
Look, the yearling sales are coming up soon.
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There had been two: a yearling and, a week later, a buck.
Fiction book (2002) -
This beast is little more than a yearling.
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Something killed a yearling in the pasture behind their house.
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I have yearlings for sale.
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There's nothing the matter with the yearling.
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I've raised yearlings since I was 5 years old.
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So we sell the mares and the yearlings.
Synonyms
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A child or animal that is one year old
How Old
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70
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- Jargon
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3.9
80
1.4
8
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14
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Yearling is made of year and the little ending -ling, and -ling means 'young' or 'small', as in duckling. So a yearling is an animal that is about 'one year' old, usually between one and two years.