The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foal \Foal\ (f[=o]l), n. [OE. fole, AS. fola; akin to OHG. folo, G. fohlen, Goth. fula, Icel. foli, Sw. f[*a]le, Gr. pw^los, L. pullus a young animal. Cf. Filly, Poultry, Pullet.] (Zo["o].) The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equid[ae]); a colt; a filly.
Foal teeth (Zo["o]l.), the first set of teeth of a horse.
In foal, With foal, being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.
Usage examples of "in foal".
The forty-two mares brought in coldsleep by the colony were all in foal, and the nomads' leaders had accepted the fact that a mare's gestation period was eleven months on Pern as it had been on Earth.
The forty-two mares brought in coldsleep by the colony were all in foal, and the nomads leaders had accepted the fact that a mares gestation period was eleven months on Pern as it had been on Earth.
He was slain by another, who would have bred me, but I was heavy in foal.
We try to have the mare covered two or three times while she's in heat, for the best chance of getting her in foal.
We just acquired Solomy six months ago, and of course she was already in foal.
Each of the mares is also in foal, so any colts may also stand if they're up to the standard I mean to have.
So we take a top-class mare, now in foal by the best sire, and we drive her a long way off and sell her at the end of the journey to some owner or trainer who is glad to get a fabulously bred foal for a fraction of what it would cost him at auction.
Lada is in foal, and had to go after her Chosen with less than two moons to go.
The forty-two mares brought in coldsleep by the colony were all in foal, and the nomads´.
The forty-two mares brought in coldsleep by the colony were all in foal, and the nomads’.