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teg

or tegg

[ teg ]

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.


teg

/ tɛɡ /

noun

  1. a two-year-old sheep
  2. the fleece of a two-year-old sheep
“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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of teg1

First recorded in 1520–30; origin uncertain
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Word History and Origins

Origin of teg1

C16: of unknown origin
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Example Sentences

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. 

She told him stories of the tylwyth teg—the little brown Welsh fairies.

The two men and their dogs were on the hillside, with two hundred and fifty tegs moving before them.

On the 7th of April the fifty tegs were put on rye with mangels, and they were sold on the 4th of May at 61s. each.

She asked him if he had liked the sermon, and then told him to get off home quickly and give the tegs their swill.

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