noun2. the meat of a young sheep
3. a person, esp a child, who is innocent, meek, good, etc
4. a person easily deceived
5. like a lamb to the slaughter
verb6. Also: lamb down (intransitive) (of a ewe) to give birth
7. (tr; used in the passive) (of a lamb) to be born
8. (intransitive) (of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time
Word origin
Old English
lamb, from Germanic; compare German
Lamm, Old High German and Old Norse
lamb