Noun: yearling
| Singular | yearling |
| Plural | yearlings |
Sample Sentences
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a yearling lamb
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Tom Fettig and his wife, Kim, were there with 60 yearlings, about half of a herd they were helping their son raise on the outskirts of Bismarck. [2021 August 25, Henry Fountain, Benjamin Rasmussen, “‘The Worst Thing I Can Ever Remember’: How Drought Is Crushing Ranchers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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"But is a plebe forbidden to stroll here?"
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"If a plebe did have the brass to try it," replied Anstey slowly, "I reckon he would have to fight the whole yearling class in turn." [1910, H. Irving Hancock, Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point, page 84:]
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As a yearling, he admitted to doing his part in ensuring that plebes knew their place at the Academy, […] [2014, Michael E. Haskew, West Point 1915 (page 57)]
Nouns inflected like yearling
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English yerling, yerlyng, equivalent to year + -ling. Cognate with Dutch jaarling (“yearling”), German Jährling (“yearling”). See: Dutch Nouns '
jaarling'.
Verbs referencing "yearling"
Romanian Nouns
cârlan.