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weanling

[ween-ling] / ˈwin lɪŋ /
NOUN
yearling
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One of Whitman’s exercise riders had asked her to buy an inexpensive weanling for him in lieu of what she owed him.

From New York Times May 6, 2022

When the weanling calves had reached 14 months and put on the required weight, Da decided it was time to sell them.

From The Guardian Mar. 22, 2018

But they had never before been to the winter sale, which included a mix of brood mares, weanling horses that were born earlier this year and some racing-age horses.

From Seattle Times Dec. 16, 2017

Her third, a weanling filly, died in a paddock accident.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2016

What’s a wind to me?I can see up the street here, if they come—They do not come!—Oh! my poor weanling lambs—Struck dead by carrion ravens!What then, I have borne worse. 

From The Saint's Tragedy by Kingsley, Charles




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