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Definitions for Lambing
[1] a young sheep.
[2] the meat of a young sheep.
[3] a person who is gentle, meek, innocent, etc.: Their little daughter is such a lamb.
[4] a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, especially an inexperienced speculator.
[5] the Lamb, Christ.
[6] to give birth to a lamb.
[7] the birth of lambs (as modifier ) lambing time
[8] the shepherd's work of tending the ewes and newborn lambs at this time
[9] the young of a sheep
[10] the meat of a young sheep
[11] a person, esp a child, who is innocent, meek, good, etc
[12] a person easily deceived
[13] like a lamb to the slaughter without resistance innocently
[14] Also: lamb down (intr) (of a ewe) to give birth
[15] (tr; used in the passive) (of a lamb) to be born
[16] (intr) (of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time
[17] the Lamb a title given to Christ in the New Testament
[18] Charles, pen name Elia. 1775–1834, English essayist and critic. He collaborated with his sister Mary on Tales from Shakespeare (1807). His other works include Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (1808) and the largely autobiographical essays collected in Essays of Elia (1823; 1833)
[19] William. See (2nd Viscount) Melbourne 2
[20] Willis Eugene. 1913–2008, US physicist. He detected the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom (Lamb shift ). Nobel prize for physics 1955
Words related to Lambing
lambfondle, lamb, love, pamper, pet, cuddle, caress, spoil
Words nearby Lambing
lamblamartine, lamas, lamasery, lamaze, lamaze method, lamb, lamb down, lamb of god, lamb shift, lamb syndrome, lamb's ears
Origin of Lambing
before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch lam, German Lamm, Old Norse, Gothic lamb; akin to Greek élaphos deer. See elk
Words that may be confused with Lambing
WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, lamblam, lamb
Word origin for Lambing
Old English lamb, from Germanic; compare German Lamm, Old High German and Old Norse lamb