Noun
She's as gentle as a lamb.
the new guys at football camp were lambs who hardly knew what awaited them Verb
The ewes will lamb soon.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The menu includes mussels, escargots, duck confit and roasted rack of lamb and the backdrop includes much by which to be entertained.—Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2024 Not for the faint of heart, this rich lamb head and foot soup is a stout breakfast that people who grew up with it either love or hate.—Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024
Verb
Electric fences can keep bears, wolves and coyotes out of calving and lambing pastures.—Ben Long, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024 As Rona tends to the farming demands of lambing season, reminders of her raucous drunken days in London rupture her thoughts like shards of glass, with the thumping techno music that accompanies many of those memories pounding away in her headphones.—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See all Example Sentences for lamb
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German lamb lamb
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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