weanling

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One of Whitman’s exercise riders had asked her to buy an inexpensive weanling for him in lieu of what she owed him.

From New York Times • May 6, 2022

When the weanling calves had reached 14 months and put on the required weight, Da decided it was time to sell them.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2018

But they had never before been to the winter sale, which included a mix of brood mares, weanling horses that were born earlier this year and some racing-age horses.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2017

Smith has been around Ziconic a lot, starting when the colt was a weanling, and has seen him develop.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2016

Mine, the fairest eyes, sought first thy laws and knew them       Truths undefiled; Mine, the fairest hands, took freedom first into them,       A weanling child.

From Songs Before Sunrise by Swinburne, Algernon Charles