teg

or tegg

[ teg ]

noun

1. Animal Husbandry.
   1. a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
   2. the wool shorn from such a sheep.
2. Chiefly British. a two-year-old doe.
3. British Dialect. a yearling sheep.

teg

/ tɛɡ /

noun

1. a two-year-old sheep
2. the fleece of a two-year-old sheep

Word History and Origins

Origin of teg¹

First recorded in 1520–30; origin uncertain

Word History and Origins

Origin of teg¹

C16: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

Love to listen to his pleasant stories of foreign lands, ghosts and tylwith teg; but before him deem it wise to be mum, quite mum. 

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She told him stories of the tylwyth teg—the little brown Welsh fairies.

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The two men and their dogs were on the hillside, with two hundred and fifty tegs moving before them.

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On the 7th of April the fifty tegs were put on rye with mangels, and they were sold on the 4th of May at 61s. each.

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She asked him if he had liked the sermon, and then told him to get off home quickly and give the tegs their swill.

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