An archaic or dialectal term for livestock or animals kept for farming purposes.
Possibly from Middle English or dialectal sources, though the precise origin is unclear. This appears to be a regional or obsolete term that survives primarily in historical texts.
This obscure word shows how many terms for everyday things in medieval farming have vanished from modern English—we've lost the names for things our ancestors knew intimately.
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