teg

American  

[teg] / tɛg /

Or tegg

noun

1. Animal Husbandry.

   1. a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.

   2. the wool shorn from such a sheep.

2. Chiefly British. a two-year-old doe.

3. British Dialect. a yearling sheep.

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teg British  

/ tɛɡ /

noun

1. a two-year-old sheep

2. the fleece of a two-year-old sheep

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Etymology

Origin of teg

First recorded in 1520–30; origin uncertain

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Example Sentences

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teg

Ass yw teg an gwel Fatel wrav vy mos dhe'n gwerthjiow?

From BBC ● May 30, 2012

Love to listen to his pleasant stories of foreign lands, ghosts and tylwith teg; but before him deem it wise to be mum, quite mum. 

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by George Henry Borrow

It was about Penelop, the tylwyth teg, who married the farmer's boy.

From The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard

Yea, that was, if we took either hare, teg, or doe.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt

Her words were scarcely audible: "I wand you teg kyah my lill' girl."

From Old Creole Days by George Washington Cable

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