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beeves

من ويكاموس، القاموس الحر

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beeves plural

  1. صِيغَةُ جَمْعٍ مُفْرَدُهَا [[beef]]
cows, bulls, or steers.
    • قالب:RQ:Authorized Version
      And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
      One way a Band select from forage drives
      A herd of Beeves, faire Oxen and faire Kine
      From a fat Meddow ground
    • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
      …to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance.
    • 2004, Ginger Hanson, Ransom's Bride, page 106
      "I heard Texas was horses and beeves."