biestings

English

Noun

biestings pl (plural only)

  1. Alternative spelling of beestings (“first milk after giving birth”)
    • 1901 May 24, “Dairying in Australia”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, number 6, page 176:
      "Biestings," or milk from newly-calved cows, should not be sent to the factory or creamery, nor separated till after the eighth milking.
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