Definition of "weanling" [wean•ling]

• A newly weaned child or young animal. (noun)
• Newly weaned. (adjective)

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• "Hugh Fitzsimons purchased the bay Texas-bred weanling, which is a full-sister to Valid Message, winner of the Skyy El Joven Stakes at Retama Park and the Sunny's Halo Stakes at Louisiana Downs in 2008."
• "Surely I have smoothed and quieted my soul: like a weanling on his mother's (breast), like a weanling is my soul within me. ""
• "He fetched up for a moment at a drawing easel, his reiterant cry checked on his lips, and threw a laugh of recognition and appreciation at the sketch, just outlined, of an awkward, big-boned, knobby, weanling colt caught in the act of madly whinneying for its mother."