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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
yearling
noun
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▪ But they have not made a single bid at Britain's top yearling sale this week.
▪ Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas, and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas.
▪ Donkeys acquire infection as foals and yearlings and tend to remain infected, presumably through re-exposure, all their lives.
▪ His yearlings sold for astonishing sums.
▪ It sometimes happens that yearling or two-year-old colts show signs of aggression, and treat people like an inferior horse.
▪ Later two cattle trucks came, and the drivers put coveralls over their regular clothes and hazed the yearlings into the trucks.
▪ Such terrors are more likely to affect foals and yearlings because they have been exposed to fewer objects and experiences.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yearling

Yearling \Year"ling\, n. [Year + -ling.] An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.

Yearling

Yearling \Year"ling\, a. Being a year old. ``A yearling bullock to thy name small smoke.''
--Pope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yearling

"animal a year old or in its second year," mid-15c., from year + -ling. Year-old (n.) in this sense is from 1530s.

Wiktionary
yearling

n. 1 An animal that is between one and two years old. 2 A racehorse that is considered to be one year old until a subsequent January 1st.

WordNet
yearling

  1. n. a young child [syn: toddler, tot, bambino]

  2. a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth

  3. an animal in its second year

Wikipedia
Yearling

Yearling may refer to:

  • Yearling (biology, zoology), an animal in its second year of life.
    • Yearling (horse), a horse between one and two years of age

in titles or proper names:

  • Yearling Books, an imprint of the publishing company Random House
  • The Yearling, a 1938 novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    • The Yearling (film), a 1946 film based on the novel of the same name
  • The Yearling (1994 film), a 1994 TV movie that aired on CBS on April 24, 1994
Yearling (horse)

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 considered too young to be breeding stock.

In addition, the word colt may also be used to describe a male horse, and the term filly is used to describe a female horse. Both "colt" and "filly" describe not only yearlings, but any other young horse under four.

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.