beestings

American  

[bee-stingz] / ˈbi stɪŋz /

Or beastings,

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the first milk or colostrum of a mammal, especially a cow, after giving birth.

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beestings British  

/ ˈbiːstɪŋz /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the first milk secreted by the mammary glands of a cow or similar animal immediately after giving birth; colostrum

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Etymology

Origin of beestings

before 1000; late Middle English bestynge, Old English bȳsting, equivalent to bēost beestings (cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German biost, German Biest ) + -ing -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Allergists estimate that 125 people die each year from food allergies, usually to peanuts, compared with about 50 deaths from allergic reactions to beestings.

From Time Magazine Archive

A porridge of goat's beestings was made for her, and for meat there were dressed the hearts of every kind of beast which could be obtained there.

From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew

A porridge of goat’s beestings was made for her, and for meat there were dressed the hearts of every kind of beast, which could be obtained there.

From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.

Get some small cuttle-fish, or squids, some nestis, Some small fry of the polypus, some tripe, And beestings and black-puddings; get besides A noble head of the Milesian pike.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

There too were cakes of groats well steep'd in milk, In large flat dishes, and rich plates of beestings.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us