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ˈthree-years, -year, a.
1. Of or pertaining to, or lasting for, three years; of the age of three years.
1665Pepys Diary 7 Apr., We having already..spent one year's share of the three-years tax. 1727[Dorrington] Philip Quarll (1816) 37 They set sail for a three years voyage. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. i. iv, The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years child.
2. ˈthree-year-ˌold, of the age of three years; spec. of horses; also, of three years' standing, that has been such for three years. Also three years old.
1825Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Observ. Peel's Sp. (1830) 10 Exclusion of all Barristers but three-year-old ones. Ibid. 13 Three years old Barristers. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 307/2 A three-year-old colt. 1894Field 9 June 850/3 A three-year-old animal may have all the permanent incisors well up. 1910Westm. Gaz. 2 Apr. 7/3 A strange story of an alleged three-year-old treaty between Russia and China.
b. absol. or as n.; also attrib.
1617in T. Pont's Topogr. Acc. Cunningham (Maitland Cl.) 200 Saxtein auld kye... Item, thrie thrie-yeir-aldis. 1825Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Observ. Peel's Sp. (1830) 18 Turn now to the three year olds [i.e. barristers]. 1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports ii. (ed. 2) §119 By Training the three-year-old is understood the preparation of the colt for racing as a three-year-old, in his fourth year. 1882Daily News 26 Dec. 3/5 Not only in the three-year-old prizes did the fillies make their mark.
So three-ˈyearling a. = three-year-old.
1621Ainsworth Annot. Pentat. (1639) 58 Take unto thee a three-yeerling heiffer and a three-yeerling she goat. |