yearling
yur ling
- n a young child
- n a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth
- n an animal in its second year
- Next week the two-year-olds will be partly eclipsed by their younger brothers sisters, when the big yearling sales that take place during the middle fortnight of the Saratoga .
- Then the crack of a rifle scatters the herd: Rocky Afraid-of-Hawk drops a yearling bull with one clean shot.
- Four evenings later, a total of 224 yearling thoroughbreds ($6,841,100 worth) had passed under the auctioneer's hammer for an average price of $30,541, an alltime Saratoga high.