Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A newly weaned child or young animal.
- noun A weaned racehorse that is less than one year old.
- adjective Newly weaned.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A child or young animal newly weaned.
- Recently weaned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- a. & n. from
wean , v. - (Med.) See under
Brash . - noun A child or animal newly weaned; a wean.
- adjective Recently weaned.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any young
mammal that has been recentlyweaned . - noun Specifically, a human
child that has been recentlyweaned . - noun Specifically, a young
horse that has beenweaned from its mother, but is less than one year old (usually 5-12 months old).
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Examples
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Hugh Fitzsimons purchased the bay Texas-bred weanling, which is a full-sister to Valid Message, winner of the Skyy El Joven Stakes at Retama Park and the Sunny's Halo Stakes at Louisiana Downs in 2008.
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Surely I have smoothed and quieted my soul: like a weanling on his mother's (breast), like a weanling is my soul within me. "
The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Bred by the partnership of Becky Thomas and Lewis Lakin, Giant Ryan was not Breeders' Cup nominated as a weanling.
Liz O'Connell: A Pair of "Neighborhood Kids" to Run in the Breeders' Cup Liz O'Connell 2011
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Bred by the partnership of Becky Thomas and Lewis Lakin, Giant Ryan was not Breeders' Cup nominated as a weanling.
Liz O'Connell: A Pair of "Neighborhood Kids" to Run in the Breeders' Cup Liz O'Connell 2011
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A thoroughbred weanling rested its head on another horse near Denman, New South Wales, Australia, Sunday.
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Bred by the partnership of Becky Thomas and Lewis Lakin, Giant Ryan was not Breeders' Cup nominated as a weanling.
Liz O'Connell: A Pair of "Neighborhood Kids" to Run in the Breeders' Cup Liz O'Connell 2011
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He fetched up for a moment at a drawing easel, his reiterant cry checked on his lips, and threw a laugh of recognition and appreciation at the sketch, just outlined, of an awkward, big-boned, knobby, weanling colt caught in the act of madly whinneying for its mother.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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Bred by the partnership of Becky Thomas and Lewis Lakin, Giant Ryan was not Breeders' Cup nominated as a weanling.
Liz O'Connell: A Pair of "Neighborhood Kids" to Run in the Breeders' Cup Liz O'Connell 2011
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On a weanling shoat he'd earlier noticed rooting among the fallen apples beneath this favorite of all his trees.
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Little Larky's weanling, yearling and two-year-old years were unremarkable.
Liz O'Connell: You Can Bet on Little Larky Liz O 2010
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