Yearling

ˈjɪərlɪŋ

noun

a young animal, especially a horse, that is between one and two years old

The term 'yearling' is commonly used in the context of animal husbandry and breeding to refer to a young animal that is a year old. It can also be used more broadly to describe any young creature in the early stage of its life.

But as for Arwen the Fair, Lady of Imladris and of Lórien, Evenstar of her people, she is of lineage greater than yours, and she has lived in the world already so long that to her you are but as a yearling shoot beside a young birch of many summers.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Return of the King

At the Stoners' they found two yearling pigs in the back pen, healthy and full of beans.

King, Stephen

The Stand

"The boy cannot use his legs to command the animal, so you must shape the horse to the rider, teach it to respond to the reins, to the voice. I would begin with an unbroken yearling, with no old training to be unlearned."

George R. R. Martin

A Game Of Thrones

The yearling was a cool customer.

Asimov, Isaac

Foundation 1 - Foundation

A young buck, probably a yearling by his size.

Suzanne Collins

Hunger Games 1 - The Hunger Games

The meat was the backbone of a yearling calf, boiled with corn.

Oliver La Farge

Laughing Boy

Then he remembered in a flash what the Burgomaster Gull had screamed to him when he was a little yearling at Walrus Islet, and he tumbled backward in the water, for he knew that he had found Sea Cow at last.

Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book

She remembered how the yearling buck had swerved and run right at her, and how she'd decapitated it with the Oriza.

Stephen King

Dark Tower 7 - The Dark Tower

But chief the reverend sage admired; he took The hand of young Telemachus, and spoke: "Oh, happy youth! and favoured of the skies, Distinguished care of guardian deities! Whose early years for future worth engage, No vulgar manhood, no ignoble age. For lo! none other of the course above, Then she, the daughter of almighty Jove, Pallas herself, the war-triumphant maid; Confess'd is thine, as once thy fathers aid. So guide me, goddess! so propitious shine On me, my consort, and my royal line! A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke, Untamed, unconscious of the galling yoke, With ample forehead, and yet tender horns, Whose budding honours ductile gold adorns."

Homer

The Odyssey