beeves

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beeves plural

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Plural form of beef: cows, bulls, or steers.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Numbers 31:28

     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:

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     One way a Band select from forage drives

     A herd of Beeves, faire Oxen and faire Kine

     From a fat Meddow ground

   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

     …to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance.

   • 2004, Ginger Hanson, Ransom's Bride, page 106

     "I heard Texas was horses and beeves."