foal
English
Etymology
From Middle English fole, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô, from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *pōlH- (“animal young”) (cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole, West Frisian fôle, foalle, Dutch veulen, German Low German Fohl, German Fohlen, Fohle, Swedish fåle; compare also Ancient Greek πῶλος (pôlos), Latin pullus, Albanian pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, fawn”). Related to filly.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊl
Noun
foal (plural foals)
- 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.
Translations
young horse
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Verb
foal (third-person singular simple present foals, present participle foaling, simple past and past participle foaled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
- All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.
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Translations
give birth (equestrian)
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See also
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