All 12 Uses of
yearling
in
The Horse Whisperer
- They used to halter-break their colts as yearlings in the spring and the boy would sit on the top rail of the corral and watch.†
Chpt 8yearlings = animals between one and two years of age
- 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.†
Chpt 8 *yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
- Tom told him how he was going to be working with the yearlings and some of the older colts he'd bred.†
Chpt 10yearlings = animals between one and two years of age
- After breakfast they were going to start working with some of the yearlings.†
Chpt 14
- "What about the yearlings?" she said.†
Chpt 15
- "Anyway," Tom went on after it was said, "Joe here's going to be helping me with the yearlings.†
Chpt 15
- When she drove over the hill and down past the corrals, she saw Tom's yearlings running in the arena, but there was no sign of Tom and she felt disappointed, then amused that she should feel so.†
Chpt 19
- Tom and Grace had strolled over to the back pen where he kept the yearlings.†
Chpt 20
- One of the yearlings nickered softly at the far end of the pen.†
Chpt 20
- Frank said Tom had been delayed by some problem with one of the yearlings but he was in the shower when they left and wouldn't be long.†
Chpt 23
- Some of the yearlings in the far paddock were already seeking the shade of the cotton woods.†
Chpt 28
- Bronty's "foal" was now a boisterous yearling who in public was treated by Pilgrim with a kind of lofty disdain.†
Chpt 36yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
Definitions:
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(1)
(yearling) 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)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, yearling can refer to something else that involves a single year -- such as a first-year student.