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- noun Plural form of
yearling .
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Examples
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However i think that you have to have some type of management skills and not live by the old saying "if its brown its down" taking yearlings is uncalled for, let them grow
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However i think that you have to have some type of management skills and not live by the old saying "if its brown its down" taking yearlings is uncalled for, let them grow
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Part of that was to do a demonstration with the special forces group that helped train the yearlings -- the yearlings are the second-year cadets -- during their Camp Buckner summer.
In the Men's House 1990
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After this time they are called yearlings, are much more hardy and not subject to nearly as many risks as up to that time.
Amateur Fish Culture Charles Edward Walker
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You mean "yearlings" and YES they do taste GREAT! (sorry Tony) lol
who else loves to eat fawns? they taste so much better i think. 2009
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You mean "yearlings" and YES they do taste GREAT! (sorry Tony) lol
who else loves to eat fawns? they taste so much better i think. 2009
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The new stock, the "yearlings," driven into the Bad Lands from Texas or Iowa or Minnesota, succumbed first of all.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923
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The "yearlings" swore by him in any discussion as to the relative merits of the four captains; but with equal energy swore at him when contemplating that fateful volume known as "the skin book."
Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Charles King 1888
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Fair ones, why will you thus torture the "yearlings" by your at other times so desirable presence?
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-- This alludes to a habit practised, especially by, "yearlings" while in camp, and is equivalent to our every-day expression in civil life, viz., "to get in with."
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