Foal
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
- 2 a young horse wordnet
- 3 A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub. historical
- 1 To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring. ambitransitive
"All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled."
- 2 give birth to a foal wordnet
Example
More examples"Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, O my son, to the vine, he shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape."
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.