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beestings

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?bi?.st??z/

Etymology 1

From Old English b?sting, derived from b?ost, from Proto-West Germanic *beust.

Noun

beestings pl (plural only)

  1. The first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth.
    Synonyms: beest, colostrum
    • 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 54:
      He took a jug of ‘beestings’ milk from the press, the milk of a cow that has recently calved, and drank it down in six big gulps.

Alternative forms

  • beastings, beistings, beistyn, biestings, bisnings

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

beestings

  1. plural of beesting

beestings From the web:



beastings

English

Noun

beastings

  1. Alternative spelling of beestings (first milk after giving birth)

Noun

beastings

  1. plural of beasting

References

  • OED 2nd edition 1989 (online)

Anagrams

  • basseting

beastings From the web:

  • what is beastings meaning
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