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FOAL
foal
(noun) a young horse
foal
(verb) give birth to a foal; “the mare foaled”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
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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