[
UK
/jˈiəlɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈjɝɫɪŋ, ˈjɪɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈjɝɫɪŋ, ˈjɪɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- an animal in its second year
- a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth
- a young child
How To Use yearling In A Sentence
- He mates them to a Charolais bull and keeps the calves until they are yearlings.
- The structure that was destroyed was a barn used for foaling mares and prepping yearlings.
- Peeples also purchased the second highest-priced yearling of the day when he bid $57,000 for a chestnut colt from the first crop of Just a Cat.
- He is also eligible for the PHSC Yearling Lounge Line, two-year-old western pleasure and three-year old reining futurities.
- To successfully graze and grow yearlings, a combination of very high quality winter and summer grasses must be available.
- Several studies have shown that yearling passerines are more frequently cuckolded by older males than vice versa.
- The animals included seven yearlings which an RSPCA vet said were emaciated and suffering from malnutrition.
- Heiser doesn't use a backhoe to muck out the corral where he winters his yearlings; he uses a wheelbarrow.
- The yearlings are like puppies or kittens seeing snow for the first time. The Sun
- Currently there are six divisions of Three Chimneys, four of which are devoted to mares and foals, one to yearlings, and one to the farm's 12 stallions.