- plural of cow.
kine
1 Americannoun
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kine1
Middle English kyn, Old English cȳna, genitive plural of cū cow 1
Origin of kine2
Shortened form
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Example Sentences
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Many a notable came to see the thousands of sleek porkers, fuzzy sheep, velvety kine, clucking fowl.
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In that time, the unhappy custodians of the Tate have willy-nilly acquired tons and acres of lowing kine, rearing horses, languorous ladies, idyllic landscapes and storm-beset ships-of-the-line.
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The crowd expects his office to be bucolic and full of ewes and kine.
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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.
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He not realize he no can hear mollusks, like octopus, or other kine sea creatures.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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