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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The young of a sheep or goat; a lamb or kid.
  2. adj. Newly born; infant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The young of sheep or goats; a lamb; a kid; an eanling: sometimes used attributively.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The newly born offspring of a goat or sheep.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A lamb or a kid; an eanling.

Etymologies

  1. From yean +‎ -ling. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “He could have flung himself at Mme. de Beauseant’s feet; he longed for the power of the devil if he could snatch her away and hide her in his heart, as an eagle snatches up some white yeanling from the plains and bears it to its eyrie.”

    Father Goriot

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  • duckbill All the yeanlings which were streak’d and pied,
    Should fall as Jacob’s hire.
    Shakespeare. Apr 19, 2011

  • brtom Dislodging from a Region scarce of prey
    To gorge the flesh of Lambs or yeanling Kids ...
    Milton, Paradise Lost III Dec 19, 2006

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‘yeanling’ has been looked up 1142 times, added to 11 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 12.