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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: lambing /ˈlæmɪŋ/ n - the birth of lambs
- the shepherd's work of tending the ewes and newborn lambs at this time
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024lamb /læm/USA pronunciation n. - Animal Husbandry[countable] a young sheep.
- the meat of a young sheep:[uncountable]a leg of lamb.
- a person who is gentle, meek, or easily cheated.
v. [no object] - to give birth to a lamb.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lamb (lam),USA pronunciation n. - Animal Husbandrya young sheep.
- the meat of a young sheep.
- a person who is gentle, meek, innocent, etc.:Their little daughter is such a lamb.
- a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, esp. an inexperienced speculator.
- the Lamb, Christ.
v.i. - to give birth to a lamb.
- bef. 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch lam, German Lamm, Old Norse, Gothic lamb; akin to Greek élaphos deer. See elk
Lamb (lam),USA pronunciation n. - Biographical Charles ("Elia''), 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
- Biographical Harold A., 1892–1962, U.S. novelist.
- Biographical Mary Ann, 1764–1847, English author who wrote in collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb.
- Biographical William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1779–1848, English statesman: prime minister 1834, 1835–41.
- Biographical Willis E(ugene), Jr., born 1913, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1955.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: lamb /læm/ n - the young of a sheep
- the meat of a young sheep
- a person, esp a child, who is innocent, meek, good, etc
- a person easily deceived
vb Also: lamb down (intransitive) (of a ewe) to give birth- (intransitive) (of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time
Etymology: Old English lamb, from Germanic; compare German Lamm, Old High German and Old Norse lambˈlambˌlike adj |