a. and sb.
A. adj. Of the age of two years. Chiefly of animals, esp. colts.
1601. in T. Pont’s Topogr. Acc. Cunningham (Maitland Cl.), 180. Item, ane twa ȝeir auld bull.
c. 1686. Depred. Clan Campbell (1816), 31. [Three] tuo year old stots.
1805. R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., II. 1176. Young horses, as two-year old colts.
1835. Jekyll, Corr. (1894), 338. The two-year-old person on the throne of Spain.
1838. Penny Cycl., XII. 307/2. A three-year-old colt has his form and energies much more developed than a two-year-old one.
B. sb. An animal (esp. a colt) or child of two years of age. Also attrib.
1594–5. Durham Wills (Surtees), II. 254. iiij kyne and their calves, and fowre two-yere oldes.
a. 1600. in T. Pont’s Topogr. Acc. Cunningham (Maitland Cl.), 178. Item, xiiij ȝoing beystis,… four twa ȝeir auldis and five ane ȝeir auld.
c. 1686. Depred. Clan Campbell (1816), 57. Nyne great coues, 2 tuo year olds.
1831. Youatt, Horse, viii. 141. Is it possible to give this mouth to an early two-year-old?
1856. H. H. Dixon, Post & Paddock, iii. 56. Two-year-old racing lays the seeds of infirmity. Ibid., iii. 79. Very few two-year-olds were then trained.
1895. P. Hemingway, Out of Egypt, I. iv. 46. The two-year-old [child] regarded him wonderingly.
