- a very young horse or donkeyTopics Animalsc1Word OriginOld English fola, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veulen and German Fohlen, also to filly.
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See foal in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryin foal
- (of a female horse) pregnant
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