Meaning & use
Spean
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To wean a baby or young animal from its mother's milk.
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The farmer speaned the lambs at eight weeks old.
In the old diary, she wrote of speaning the youngest child that spring.
A note on using this word
A chiefly Scottish and Northern English dialect word, still used in farming contexts.
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wean
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