[f. as prec. + -LING.] An ox, sheep or other animal of a year old; a yearling.

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1825.  [see WINTERING vbl. sb. 4].

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1881.  Sir G. W. Cox, Compar. Mythol., 156, note. A Chimaira is thus, strictly, a winterling, that is, a yearling.

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