beestings

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1. pluralplural onlyThe first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth.

   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.

   2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 54

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   [W]ith thy Sickle reap the rankeſt land: / And miniſter the Blade, vvith bounteous hand. / Nor be vvith harmful parſimony vvon / To follovv vvhat our homely Sires have done; / VVho fill'd the Pail vvith Beeſtings of the Covv: / But all her Udder to the Calf allovv.

   1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 104, lines 279–284

   Synonyms: beest, colostrum

alternative beastings · alternative beistings · alternative beistyn · alternative biestings · alternative bislings · alternative bisnings

1. pluralplural of beesting