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  • plural of cow.

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 cū cow 1

Origin of kine2

Shortened form


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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.

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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