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Definition of Beestings
1. n. Same as Biestings.
Definition of Beestings
1. Noun. The first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth. ¹
2. Noun. (plural of beesting) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beestings
1. [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beestings
Literary usage of Beestings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"beestings ' flavoured with spice, sweetened, and baked in a dish lined with paste.
Com. ... Ash has beestings, which he calls a corrupted spelling of ..."
2. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"... -trum 'the first milk in the breasts of animals after delivery, beestings' is
formed with the suffix -trd, -tro- from a nominal stem ..."
3. The Dialect and Folk-lore of Northamptonshire by Thomas Sternberg (1851)
"... The first milk yielded by the cow beestings, ) after calving. Ev. beestings.
... Hart. beestings. Bat. ..."
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