bleat

[Bleat]

The sound a lamb or calf makes is a bleat. If you hear tiny bleats coming from your barn, you'll know the new baby goats were born at last.

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To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.

Noun
the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)

Verb
cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating"

Verb
talk whiningly


v. i.
To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.

n.
A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.


Bleat

Bleat , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bleated; p. pr. & vb. n. Bleating.] [OE. bleten, AS. bltan; akin to D. blaten, bleeten, OHG. bl'bezan, pl'bezan; prob. of imitative origin.] To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.
Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train.
The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats.

Bleat

Bleat, n. A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.
The bleat of fleecy sheep.

To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.

A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.

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