yean

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You should also contrive stalls separated from the others in which you may segregate the ewes about to yean, as well as any which may be ailing.

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  1. intransitive verb To bear young. Used of sheep and goats.
  2. transitive verb To give birth to; bear. Used of sheep and goats.

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  1. Middle English iyenen, yenen, from Old English *geēanian : ge-, verb pref.; see kom in Indo-European roots + ēanian, to bear young.

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  1. from Middle English *ʒenen, *ʒe-enen, from Anglo-Saxon *ge-eánian, ge-eácnian, bring forth, become pregnant, from eácen, ge-eácen, gravid, teeming: see ean.
 

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