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

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. 

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

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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.

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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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If every fair dancer joined the Tylwyth teg's dance, how many beings would be danced out of the world?

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