The Collaborative Dictionary

Yearling \Year"ling\, n. [Year + -ling.] An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses. [1913 Webster]

Yearling \Year"ling\, a. Being a year old. "A yearling bullock to thy name small smoke." --Pope. [1913 Webster] yearlong

Word Net

yearling

1 a young child [syn: toddler, tot, bambino]

2 a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth

3 an animal in its second year

Moby Thesaurus

Brahman, Indian buffalo, aurochs, babe, baby, baby bunting, bambino, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bison, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dogie, heifer, hornless cow, incubator baby, infant, kine, leppy, little angel, little darling, maverick, mewling infant, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, neat, neonate, nursling, ox, oxen, papoose, preemie, premature baby, preschooler, puling infant, steer, stirk, stot, suckling, toddler, weanling, wisent, yak, zebu

English

Noun

1. an animal that is between one and two years old
2. a racehorse that is considered to be one year old until a subsequent January 1st

Anagrams

• layering
• relaying

Yearling may refer to:

• Yearling (biology, zoology), an animal in its second year of life.
  • Yearling (horse), a horse between one and two years of age.

in titles or proper names:

• The Yearling, a 1938 novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • The Yearling (film), a 1946 film based on the novel of the same name.