quey

How to use quey in a sentence

• Ye might try it on the bauson-faced year-auld quey; an it does nae gude, it can do nae ill.

  The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2, Illustrated | Sir Walter Scott

• The dairy farmers there retain the quey calves for maintaining the number of the cows, while they feed the male calves for veal.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 401, March 1849 | Various

• We put some pieces of the quey in the barge and then went on board.

  The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1 | Robert Forbes

• I had a cake made for the occasion, which quey Ginn cut up with much pleasure.

  Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak | Harriette McDougall

• "The man's as mad as a March hare, or a gled-stung quey," cried Matty.

  Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 | Various