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yearling
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    I refused to name the horse, so we called him the Yearling.  (source)
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    Glancing up, Peter could see two does-one older, one a yearling.  (source)
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    I was born in 1975, before that wave even started to crest, and I have to say the Luttrell family was riding high, It was nothing for my dad to breed a good-looking horse from a $5,000 stallion and sell the yearling for $40,000.  (source)
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    Orrin was like a yearling mule: stubborn, overconfident, and all too willing to kick you in the gut if you gave him the opportunity.  (source)
    yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
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    Hi, you yearling, where did you get that white coat?  (source)
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    The Yearling was already broke to a halter and lead, so Shawn brought out the saddle that first day.  (source)
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    "Well done for a yearling!" said the Sea Lion, who could appreciate good swimming.  (source)
    yearling = animal between one and two years of age
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    But when Shawn hoisted himself into the saddle, the Yearling merely skittered.  (source)
    Yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
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    Then he remembered in a flash what the Burgomaster gull had screamed to him when he was a little yearling at Walrus Islet, and he tumbled backward in the water, for he knew that he had found Sea Cow at last.  (source)
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    The Yearling pawed the dirt nervously when he saw it; Shawn moved slowly, letting him smell the stirrups and nibble curiously at the horn.  (source)
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    She wasn't even a yearling yet, still clumsy and often foolish.  (source)
    yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
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    Not even a one-eyed Yearling with a lame arm would miss a shot that easy.  (source)
    Yearling = in this book, a first-year student
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    They cut back the runners on the yearlings first and then on the two— and three-year-old plants.†  (source)
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    He will starve his family for a month to buy you a pure-white yearling calf.†  (source)
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    Tom and Grace had strolled over to the back pen where he kept the yearlings.†  (source)
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    The yearling looks like a five-year-old.†  (source)
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    The old steer was twice as big as most of the scrawny yearlings that made up the herd.†  (source)
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    I would begin with an unbroken yearling, with no old training to be unlearned.†  (source)
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    That summer, he and Marcela bought fifteen yearlings at a Saratoga, New York, auction.†  (source)
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    How would a woman's arrow kill a yearling impala?†  (source)
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    Each spring, all the ranchers would have what they call a roundup, which apparently involved collecting and branding all of the new calves, called yearlings, which had been born since the last roundup.†  (source)
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    I've seen them vaqueros worked for Blair cut a yearling heifer so thin you could see through the meat.†  (source)
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    Next to this house was a corral with a few grazing mares and a couple of energetic yearlings leaping and galloping around.†  (source)
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