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Two-year-old. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Two-year-old a. and sb.

1   A.  adj. Of the age of two years. Chiefly of animals, esp. colts.

2 1601.  in T. Pont’s Topogr. Acc. Cunningham (Maitland Cl.), 180. Item, ane twa ȝeir auld bull.

3 c. 1686.  Depred. Clan Campbell (1816), 31. [Three] tuo year old stots.

4 1805.  R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., II. 1176. Young horses, as two-year old colts.

5 1835.  Jekyll, Corr. (1894), 338. The two-year-old person on the throne of Spain.

6 1838.  Penny Cycl., XII. 307/2. A three-year-old colt has his form and energies much more developed than a two-year-old one.

7   B.  sb. An animal (esp. a colt) or child of two years of age. Also attrib.

8 1594–5.  Durham Wills (Surtees), II. 254. iiij kyne and their calves, and fowre two-yere oldes.

9 a. 1600.  in T. Pont’s Topogr. Acc. Cunningham (Maitland Cl.), 178. Item, xiiij ȝoing beystis,… four twa ȝeir auldis and five ane ȝeir auld.

10 c. 1686.  Depred. Clan Campbell (1816), 57. Nyne great coues, 2 tuo year olds.

11 1831.  Youatt, Horse, viii. 141. Is it possible to give this mouth to an early two-year-old?

12 1856.  H. H. Dixon, Post & Paddock, iii. 56. Two-year-old racing lays the seeds of infirmity. Ibid., iii. 79. Very few two-year-olds were then trained.

13 1895.  P. Hemingway, Out of Egypt, I. iv. 46. The two-year-old [child] regarded him wonderingly.

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