a. and sb.
A. adj. A year old; of the age of one year.
1767. Abercrombie, Ev. Man his own Gardener (1803), 85. Young shoots rising in the spring from the year-old plants.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, iv. Was it not Wat the Devil who drove all the year-old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn-side?
1883. Z. B. Gustafson, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 894/2. The little year-old Edgar Mortara was very sick.
B. sb. A beast a year old, a yearling.
1539. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees), I. 114. xj ky & iiij quyes iiij yer olds iiij iij yere olds.
1583. Durham Wills (Surtees), II. 82. Eight younge cattell, yeare-olds, and tuantays.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1824), I. xlv. 381. None but the year olds remain together.
1816. Scott, Bl. Dwarf, i. To see if him and me can gree about the luckpenny I am to gie him for his year-aulds.
c. 1830. Glouc. Farm Rep., 17, in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb., III. The year-olds are kept in the field all winter.
