noun
- Animal Husbandry.
- a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
- the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- Chiefly British. a two-year-old doe.
- British Dialect. a yearling sheep.
noun
- a two-year-old sheep
- the fleece of a two-year-old sheep
n.sheep in its second year, 1520s, of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Scandinavian source (cf. Swedish tacka “ewe”).