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单词 lambing
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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
lambing /ˈlæmɪŋ/ n
  1. the birth of lambs
  2. the shepherd's work of tending the ewes and newborn lambs at this time
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
lamb /læm/USA pronunciation   n. 
  1. Animal Husbandry[countable] a young sheep.
  2. the meat of a young sheep:[uncountable]a leg of lamb.
  3. a person who is gentle, meek, or easily cheated.

v. [no object]
  1. to give birth to a lamb.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
lamb  (lam),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Animal Husbandrya young sheep.
  2. the meat of a young sheep.
  3. a person who is gentle, meek, innocent, etc.:Their little daughter is such a lamb.
  4. a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, esp. an inexperienced speculator.
  5. the Lamb, Christ.

v.i. 
  1. 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. 
  1. Biographical Charles ("Elia''), 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
  2. Biographical Harold A., 1892–1962, U.S. novelist.
  3. Biographical Mary Ann, 1764–1847, English author who wrote in collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb.
  4. Biographical William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1779–1848, English statesman: prime minister 1834, 1835–41.
  5. Biographical Willis E(ugene), Jr., born 1913, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1955.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
lamb /læm/ n
  1. the young of a sheep
  2. the meat of a young sheep
  3. a person, esp a child, who is innocent, meek, good, etc
  4. a person easily deceived
vb

  1. Also: lamb down (intransitive) (of a ewe) to give birth
  2. (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 lamb

ˈlambˌlike adj
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