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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One of a breed of cattle formerly bred in England, but supposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived.
2. 2
   One of an old English breed of sheep, allied to the Leicester.

Etymology

From Tees + water, after the river in northern England.

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