Beeves

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of beef: cows, bulls, or steers. archaic, form-of, humorous, plural

    "And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:"

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beefbeefsbisonbossybovinebuffalo

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"Then shoreward sends beeves twenty to the rest, / a hundred boars, of broad and bristly chine, / a hundred lambs and ews and gladdening gifts of wine."

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