weanling
a child or animal newly weaned.
newly weaned.
Origin of weanling
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How to use weanling in a sentence
She had known that colt from a weanling and to her he had not been an animal, but a personality.
Destiny | Charles Neville BuckThis is “Puckeridge”, a term also applied to a fatal distemper which often attacks weanling calves.
Among the Birds in Northern Shires | Charles DixonI had not asked him—had never said that the poor weanling wanted milk.
Roughing it in the Bush | Susanna MoodieThe Rani proposed that there might be another performance on the occasion of the first-rice ceremony of the ‘royal’ weanling.
Mashi and Other Stories | Rabindranath Tagore
British Dictionary definitions for weanling
/ (ˈwiːnlɪŋ) /
a child or young animal recently weaned
(as modifier): a weanling calf
Origin of weanling
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