yearling

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A standard price for a yearling was a plug of tobacco.

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  1. noun An animal that is one year old or has not completed its second year.
  2. noun A thoroughbred racehorse one year old dating from January 1 of the year in which it was foaled.
  3. adjective Being one year old.

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  • A Chinook trader had sold him the half-wild yearling, and Jesse had raised it to be the best horse the territory had ever seen. —  THE LIGHTKEEPER
  • We found only two cows and calves and a yearling, and heard afterwards that the Kid had moved his stock to another spring about fifteen miles east. —  The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid
  • They may be given in the autumn or spring Another delight of the yearling is to "bone colors." —  Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point
  • These 'hops' are attended by the members of the first and third classes, and their lady friends, and no 'plebe' ever has the assurance of dreaming of attending the 'hops' until he shall have risen to the dignity of a 'yearling'--third-classman. —  Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point
  • Considered to have little racing potential, he was sold for $2,000 as a yearling. —  canada.com Top Stories
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  1. = German jährling; as year + -ling. Cf. Latin vitulus, a calf, literally a ‘yearling’: see veal.
 

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