biestings

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A form of beestings — The first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth.

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Meanings

nounbiestings pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative spelling of beestings (“first milk after giving birth”).

    "Biestings," or milk from newly-calved cows, should not be sent to the factory or creamery, nor separated till after the eighth milking.

    1901 May 24, “Dairying in Australia”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 6, page 176
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