leaned

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In a copse near where she stood a little bird was busy with her fledglings, and from a meadow came the plaintive bleat of a late yeaned lamb.

From Lancashire Idylls (1898) by Mather, Marshall

At Caere a pig with two heads had been littered, and a lamb yeaned which was both male and female.

From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus

Interjections are often put without a case, as Spem gregis, ah! silice in nudâ connixa reliquit: Having yeaned, she left the hope of the flock, alas! upon the bare flint stones.

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John

"Some ewe but lately yeaned," he thought as he rode on.

From The Forest Lovers by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

The summit of the outlier is tolerably level, and here the shepherds had built small hollow piles of dry stone, in which their newly yeaned lambs are sheltered from the rude blasts.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir