What is "lambing"

Usage examples of "lambing".

He had put down some acres of cabbage for spring feed for his small flock during the lambing season, but a cruciferous crop asks for moisture.

Prentice, limping out in the early morning to see to the lambing ewes in his hirsel, had occasion to take a short cut through the hazel shaws.

But what a jolly thing to think of, that blow high, blow low, with ten thousand lambing sheep, we have not an earthly thing to do, or a single man to pay till the time comes for taking off their tails.

The lambing, with all anxieties about weather and conjectures as to percentage, is past and over.

Delia had the night shift, where she was paired with Roy Joyce, a fellow who raised sugar beets over in the valley and came out for the lambing season every year.

In the black, freezing cold middle of the night, eight and ten ewes would be lambing at a time.

The ranch had brought in some old converted school buses to house the lambing crew, and she would fall into a bunk at daybreak and then not be able to sleep, shivering in the unheated bus with the gray daylight pouring in the windows and the endless daytime clamor out at the lambing sheds.

Those were the killer days in early spring, when the lambing had begun and winter came howling down one more time .

It was spring, and the scent of grass and the sound of ewes lambing on the Welsh hillside carried through the open windows of her cottage.

Youm be a comeling, my lady, but if youm lived here like we have all the time since we was borned, youd know that here is a great wizard who makes good harvests and good lambing times.

The first movement in his new progress was the lambing of his ewes, and sheep having been his speciality from his youth, he wisely refrained from deputing the task of tending them at this season to a hireling or a novice.

Lambing, it seemed to me, had all the thrill and interest of calving without the hard labour.

He wrote to her from time to time, simple, rather laboured letters about lambing and floods and bush fires and horses.

The large casement window to his right was shut, and he could see no one outside on the lawn which sloped down to the dyke and the glebe field beyond, one which great Romney Marsh sheep were bleating to their young, for it was lambing time.

It's the old story of the eternal triangle, complicated by the villager's resentment of change-in this case, the new telegraph system, which the local crones predict will Do Things to the cows' milk and cause trouble at lambing time.