foal

IPA: fˈoʊɫ

noun

  • A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
  • (mining, historical) A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.

verb

  • (transitive, intransitive) To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
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Examples of "foal" in Sentences

  • And at Mill Ridge, La Ville Rouge is in foal again by Dynaformer.
  • Remember not to neglect your brood mares, particularly those that have difficulty getting in foal or keeping a pregnancy beyond 45 days.
  • Diane Lane's Penny Chenery Tweedy takes charge of her father's troubled farm as a foal is born in 1970 and goes on to win the Triple Crown.
  • He mentions, however, the [Greek: pôlion], or bit of livid flesh, which we call the foal's bit, and which he says the mare ejects before the foal. "
  • And the wolf-dog, with ears flattened down and crouching, would slide silkily away, only to circle up to the foal from the other side and give cause to the mare for new alarm.
  • Controlling Eastern tent caterpillars is vital to area horse farms, as UK research has strongly linked the caterpillars with outbreaks of Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome (MRLS), which can cause late-term foal losses, early-term fetal losses, and weak foals.
  • The Queen has spent nearly 60 years trying to breed a Derby winner, carefully choosing which of her mares to send to which stallion in the hope that, if the coin spins the right way and the foal is a colt, it might be good enough to emerge from the annual crop of thousands to win at Epsom three years later.

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