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kine

1 American  
[kahyn] / kaɪn /

noun

  1. an archaic plural of cow.


kine 2 American  
[kin-ee] / ˈkɪn i /

noun

  1. kinescope.


kine British  
/ kaɪn /

noun

  1. (functioning as plural) an archaic word for cows or cattle

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of kine1

Middle English kyn, Old English cȳna, genitive plural of cow 1

Origin of kine2

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All winter the monkey lived in the Lewis barn, playing simian pranks on Farmer Lewis' kine.

From Time Magazine Archive

He gazed with placid satisfaction out of his car window at the Argentine's horizon-filling wheat ranches and pampas, at her myriad herds of kine and mutton.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the ravages of more than three years of war, it will take more than candy, bubble gum and "al kine camera bag" to supply a decent living standard for South Korea's 22 million people.

From Time Magazine Archive

The crowd expects his office to be bucolic and full of ewes and kine.

From Time Magazine Archive

He not realize he no can hear mollusks, like octopus, or other kine sea creatures.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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