lambing
Britishnoun
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the birth of lambs
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lambing time
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the shepherd's work of tending the ewes and newborn lambs at this time
Example Sentences
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"When we come back in February we'll start lambing. Then we have a second lot of lambing usually around the Easter holidays. We're harvesting in the summer holidays - it's relentless really. It's busy."
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
Spring lambing season is Bowie's busiest time, but there's still work to be done on the farm at Christmas.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025
The season began in spring 1940 with goat shenanigans and the demands of lambing, a typical time in the Yorkshire Dales for the denizens of Skeldale House.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024
Last year’s event in Rio Vista was held at the end of lambing season in December.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024
The spring, and lambing, wore on and on for two, three, four more weeks with no sleep and Louie watching and Louise sleeping on the herd and me moving animals from pen to pen.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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