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noun
A ewe between one and two years old.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-English, dialectal
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History
From Middle English gimbyre, from Old Norse gymbr (“one-year-old ewe lamb”), from Proto-Germanic *gimrį̄ (“a yearling ewe-lamb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhyem- (“winter”).
