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yeanling arch.|ˈjiːnlɪŋ|
[f. yean v. + -ling. Cf. eanling.]
A young lamb or kid. Also fig.
1637B. Jonson Sad Shepherd i. ii, When to their store They add the poor man's yeanling. 1644Quarles Sheph. Orac. i, One of my weaker yeanlings hapt to stray. 1791Cowper Odyss. ix. 283 As he milked his ewes.. All in their turns, her yeanling [he] gave to each. 1862Mrs. Norton Lady of La Garaye iv. 411 Still to the schools the ancient chiming clock Calls the poor yeanlings of a simple flock. 1869Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 207 Take the young ones to the teat, Left in yeanlings' penfolds pent.
b. appositive or as adj. That is a yeanling; young or new-born: esp. of a lamb. Also fig.
1658Topsell's Four-f. Beasts 495 The common Epithets expressing the nature of this Beast [sc. the lamb] are these, rough, yeanling [ed. 1607 yearling], weak, unripe, sucking, tender. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 434 The flesh of Lambs or yeanling Kids. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. p. xiv, The yeanling kids and cooing turtles. 1812W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXIII. 239 To surround himself with ushers, proportioned to the number of boys, and more advanced in acquirement than these yeanling monitors. a1873R. Buchanan Man and Shadow i. Poet. Wks. 1874 III. 61 By the yeanling Lambkin's side. |