FOAL

foal

(noun) a young horse

foal

(verb) give birth to a foal; “the mare foaled”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

foal (plural foals)

A young horse or related animal, 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

foal (third-person singular simple present foals, present participle foaling, simple past and past participle foaled)

(ambitransitive) To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.

Anagrams

• AFOL, Olaf, loaf

Source: Wiktionary

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Foal, n. Etym: [OE. fole, AS. fola; akin to OHG. folo, G. fohlen, Goth. fula, Icel. foli, Sw Lfle, Gr., L. pullus a young animal. Cf. Filly, Poultry, Pullet.] (Zoö.)

Definition: The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidæ); a colt; a filly. Foal teeth (Zoöl.), the first set of teeth of a horse.

– In foal, With foal, being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.

Foal, v.t. [imp.& p.p. Foaled; p. pr. & vb. n. Foaling.]

Definition: To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass.

Foal, v.i.

Definition: To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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