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beestings

noun /ˈbiː.stɪŋz/

  1. The first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth.

    [W]ith thy Sickle reap the rankeſt land: / And miniſter the Blade, vvith bounteous hand. / Nor be vvith harmful parſimony vvon / To follovv vvhat our homely Sires have done; / VVho fill'd the Pail vvith Beeſtings of the Covv: / But all her Udder to the Calf allovv.

Where it comes from

From Old English bȳsting, derived from bēost, from Proto-West Germanic *beust.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry beestings (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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