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From Middle English yerling, yerlyng, equivalent to year + -ling. Cognate with Dutch jaarling (“yearling”), German Jährling (“yearling”).
yearling (plural yearlings)
- An animal that is between one and two years old; one that is in its second year (but not yet two full years old).
a yearling lamb
2021 August 25, Henry Fountain, Benjamin Rasmussen, “‘The Worst Thing I Can Ever Remember’: How Drought Is Crushing Ranchers”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
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.
- A racehorse that is considered to be one year old until a subsequent January 1st.
- (US) A sophomore at West Point military academy.
- Synonym: (slang) yuck
1910, H. Irving Hancock, Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point, page 84:
"But is a plebe forbidden to stroll here?"
"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."
- 2014, Michael E. Haskew, West Point 1915 (page 57)
- As a yearling, he admitted to doing his part in ensuring that plebes knew their place at the Academy, […]
one-year-old animal
- Asturian: aneyu m
- Catalan: primal m, primala f
- Danish: åring c
- Dutch: jaarling (nl) m
- Galician: anello (gl) m
- Georgian: ერთი წლის ცხოველი (erti c̣lis cxoveli)
- German: Jährling (de) m
- Irish: athrón m (seal), colann f (calf), colpach f (heifer or bullock), dairt f (heifer), fóisc f (ewe)
- Macedonian: го́динак m (gódinak), годи́наче n (godínače)
- Norwegian:
- Polish: roczniak (pl) m
- Portuguese: anelho (pt) m
- Spanish: añojo (es) m (bull), primal m or f (sheep, goat)
- Swedish: ettåring (sv) c
yearling m (plural yearlings)
- “yearling”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.