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teg
[teg]
noun
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
Chiefly British.a two-year-old doe.
British Dialect.a yearling sheep.
teg
/ ɛɡ /
noun
a two-year-old sheep
the fleece of a two-year-old sheep
Word History and Origins
Origin of teg1
Word History and Origins
Origin of teg1
Example Sentences
Love to listen to his pleasant stories of foreign lands, ghosts and tylwith teg; but before him deem it wise to be mum, quite mum.
She told him stories of the tylwyth teg—the little brown Welsh fairies.
The two men and their dogs were on the hillside, with two hundred and fifty tegs moving before them.
On the 7th of April the fifty tegs were put on rye with mangels, and they were sold on the 4th of May at 61s. each.
She asked him if he had liked the sermon, and then told him to get off home quickly and give the tegs their swill.
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