To bring forth young; to yean.
"The ewe is due to ean a lamb next week, so we'll need extra feed for her recovery."
Initialism of European Article Numbering: a barcode symbology whose main variant, EAN-13, encodes thirteen digits, differing from UPC-A in that three of the digits in the left half are reversed so as to encode an additional digit.
"The store manager explained that while the UPC system is familiar, the EAN code we now use adds a digit by reversing specific numbers in the barcode's left section."