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Young racehorse
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yearling
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yearling \Year"ling\, a. Being a year old. ``A yearling bullock to thy name small smoke.'' --Pope.
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A yearling is a young horse of either sex that is between one and two years old. Yearlings are comparable in development to a very early adolescent and are not fully mature physically. While they may be in the earliest stages of sexual maturity, they are ...
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n. a young child [syn: toddler , tot , bambino ] a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth an animal in its second year
Usage examples of yearling.
Owner Ramsey Osborn yesterday hedged his Arc bets by selling a half-share in his four-year-old colt to arbitrageur Malcolm Pembroke, who launched into bloodstock only this week with a two million guineas yearling at the Premium Sales.
And great as is the hide of a yearling ox or stag, which huntsmen call a brocket, so great in extent was the fleece all golden above.
We all stood in the bee-loud field and witnessed the cautious coming-out of a black Aberdeen yearling, as demure and dimensionless in the trailer as midnight itself.
He showed her the ungelded male yearling that was being sent to Turkey.
Tom must have taken all the weanlings and yearlings in his roundup last year.
Yearlings and weanlings were scattered, grazing and playing in small, separate groups.
In a little while it would be time to feed the broodmares and their colts, to handle the weanlings and yearlings, to do the many other endless tasks that went with the operation of a stock farm.
In a little while it would be time to feed the broodmares and then- colts, to handle the weanlings and yearlings, to do the many other endless tasks that went with the operation of a stock farm.
From every side Worlington Dodds heard of yearlings, of windgalls, of roarers, of spavins, of cribsuckers, of a hundred other terms which were as unintelligible to him as his own Stock Exchange jargon would have been to the company.
ALSOP, AT THE TIME MONK CAME TO COLLEGE, HAD BECOME A kind of Mother Machree of the campus, the brood hen of yearling innocents, the guide and mentor of a whole flock of fledgeling lives.
The underwool from the yearlings or the ewes was equally soft, but not as strong under duress.
As they approached a group of yearlings, munching on a pile of berseem hay in a paddock, a bay colt lifted his head to gaze at them.
Every thing from yearling colts and fillies to Arabians under training to aged broodmares was paraded out for their inspection.
Sven told me that your mother sacrificed a bullock to the Harpies on the eve of our formal agreement, and a yearling each time I gave birth.
Valora steals a victory at a time when all expected her to flee tail-tucked, like a yearling too full of springtime strength who has been pounded by the One Male.