beeves

[beevz]

noun

1. a plural of beef.

beeves

/ biːvz /

noun

1. archaic,  the plural of beef

Example Sentences

“The Navy captured a rebel ship off the coast of New Haven, filled with sheep and beeves.”

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With three employees, they can process about 10 beeves and 10 hogs every week.

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But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew.

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He described it as “a few hundred acres of dirt, some clusters of old barns and outbuildings… a few beeves and hogs or a flock of sheep.”

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This was, indeed, a prodigious pot that could boil four-and-twenty quadrupeds of the sort, for Ireland was always famous for its large pigs and beeves.

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