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ˈyear-old, a. and n.
A. adj. A year old; of the age of one year.
1767Abercrombie Ev. Man his own Gardener (1803) 85 Young shoots rising in the spring from the year-old plants. 1818Scott Rob Roy iv, Was it not Wat the Devil who drove all the year-old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn-side? 1883Gustafson in Harper's Mag. Nov. 894/2 The little year-old Edgar..was very sick.
B. n. A beast a year old, a yearling.
1539Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 114, xj ky & iiij quyes iiij yer olds iiij iij yere olds. 1583Durham Wills (Surtees) II. 82 Eight younge cattell, yeare-olds, and tuantays. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) I. xlv. 381 None but the year olds remain together. 1816Scott Bl. Dwarf i, To see if him and me can gree about the luckpenny I am to gie him for his year-aulds. c1830Glouc. Farm Rep. 17 in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb. III, The year-olds are kept in the field all winter. |