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an animal between one and two years of age — (in the case of a race or show horse, the horse is treated as though it's birthday was January 1st of the year prior to its birth)- The horse was purchased as a yearling for over a million dollars.
yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
- Due the drought, I had to sell them as yearlings.
- That night Kotick danced the Fire-dance with the yearling seals.Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book
- "Well done for a yearling!" said the Sea Lion, who could appreciate good swimming.Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book
- Hi, you yearling, where did you get that white coat?Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book
- 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.Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book
- Then I saw that what she was carrying was a baby, a critter not yearling size.William Faulkner -- Light in August
- A young buck, probably a yearling by his size.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- Orrin was like a yearling mule: stubborn, overconfident, and all too willing to kick you in the gut if you gave him the opportunity.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- They had been standing over the fire with a spitted pig, a yearling.Homer -- The Odyssey
- I got offered five hundred for my yearling oxen.Robert Newton Peck -- A Day No Pigs Would Die
- Though a long way from his full growth, White Fang, next to Lip-lip, was the largest yearling in the village.Jack London -- White Fang
- For my part I shall offer at your altar a virgin heifer, a yearling, never yoked, her horns all sheathed in gold.Homer -- The Iliad
- Glancing up, Peter could see two does-one older, one a yearling.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- I would begin with an unbroken yearling, with no old training to be unlearned.George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- —the yearling heifer, that them skulking devils the Tetons stole, was the biggest coward among us all, and after her came your drivelling Doctor.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- In a clearing near him a small herd of yearling bachelor buck were cropping grass; if one came close enough Rod intended to dine on buck.Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
- I've seen them vaqueros worked for Blair cut a yearling heifer so thin you could see through the meat.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- He watched a man tie a yearling tight by its neck to a fence, hobble a hind leg then beat it into submission with a length of zinc piping.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- The next morning we heard the search party had found what the lion killed in my place: a yearling bushbuck.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
yearlings = animals between one and two years of age
yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
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