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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sheep in its second year or before its first shearing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A female fallow-deer; a doe in the second year.
  • noun Same as tag.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun UK, dialect, dated a sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old
  • noun UK, dialect, dated a doe in its second year

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun two-year-old sheep

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Origin unknown.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Origin uncertain.

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Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. lamb

same context (3)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. plastron
  2. spencer
  3. tucker

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  • reesetee commented on the word teg

    In rare/antique books, "top edge gilt"

    February 20, 2007

  • oroboros commented on the word teg

    Get in reverse.

    November 2, 2007

  • chained_bear commented on the word teg

    "'There are political divisions here, and John's cousin belongs to the minority. John knows few people, and the talk of those few is all of wethers and tegs. A scholarly man, who drinks little wine, who dislikes hunting, for whom books and music are all-important, has little to say to them.'"

    --Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 285

    March 9, 2008