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Beestings

//ˈbiː.stɪŋz// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth. plural, plural-only

    "He took a jug of ‘beestings’ milk from the press, the milk of a cow that has recently calved, and drank it down in six big gulps."

  2. 2
    plural of beesting form-of, plural

Etymology

From Old English bȳsting, derived from bēost, from Proto-West Germanic *beust.

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