FOAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foal mean? 

• FOAL (noun)
  The noun FOAL has 1 sense:

1. a young horse

  Familiarity information: FOAL used as a noun is very rare.

• FOAL (verb)
  The verb FOAL has 1 sense:

1. give birth to a foal

  Familiarity information: FOAL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("foal" is a kind of...):

young mammal (any immature mammal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foal"):

filly (a young female horse under the age of four)

colt (a young male horse under the age of four)

Holonyms ("foal" is a member of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

Derivation:

foal (give birth to a foal)

• FOAL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they foal    ... he / she / it foals   
Past simple: foaled   
Past participle: foaled   
-ing form: foaling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give birth to a foal

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

the mare foaled

Hypernyms (to "foal" is one way to...):

bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have (cause to be born)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

foal (a young horse)

 Context examples 

A. equuli is a commensal organism of the horse upper respiratory tract but may cause disease in foals and zoonotic infections in humans.

(Actinobacillus equuli, NCI Thesaurus)

They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The behaviour of the young colt and foal appeared very modest, and that of the master and mistress extremely cheerful and complaisant to their guest.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was pleased to direct his own mare, his colt, and foal, and the servants of the family, to take all opportunities of instructing me; and every day, for two or three hours, he was at the same pains himself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and perfectly neat and clean.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)