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Grammar : Noun
Spell : yeer-ling
Phonetic Transcription : ˈyɪər lɪŋ



Définition of yearling

Origin :
  • mid-15c., from year + -ling.
  • noun suckling
Example sentences :
  • By autumn the youngster was so big and sleek that he might almost have passed for a yearling.
  • Extract from : « The House in the Water » by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • Why, he asked mildly, might not the AJ outfit have stolen the yearling?
  • Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower
  • At noon they killed a yearling pig, and roasted it and made a hearty lunch.
  • Extract from : « Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca » by Homer
  • There's my brother-in-law, Pquin; he does not know a yearling from a three-year-old.
  • Extract from : « A Village of Vagabonds » by F. Berkeley Smith
  • That night Kotick danced the Fire-dance with the yearling seals.
  • Extract from : « The Jungle Book » by Rudyard Kipling
  • No, I swan if it ain't a yearling as has been pulled down now.
  • Extract from : « The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon » by James Carson
  • About that time the forest folk had begun to speak of him as a "yearling."
  • Extract from : « The Tale of Nimble Deer » by Arthur Scott Bailey
  • I've taken premiums with him at every fair in the circuit ever since he was a yearling.
  • Extract from : « The Love Story of Abner Stone » by Edwin Carlile Litsey
  • The yearling colt had been given to him on his sixteenth birthday.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 » by Various
  • You would imply then that I am—that I am jealous of this yearling doctor?
  • Extract from : « At the Age of Eve » by Kate Trimble Sharber

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