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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

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beeves: synonyms: kine ???

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Definition:

(archaic or humorous) plural of beef: cows, bulls, or steers.

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an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance;

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

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“Hell, they’re just boys. Them settlers up there can’t fight, neither. A lot of them might pay us to keep the beeves out of their corn patches.”

Larry McMurtry. Lonesome Dove (1985)