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Cattle (Beeves)

Broad Term(s):

Livestock
Description:

The term cattle includes cows, calves, heifers, oxen, and bulls. The term beeves is plural of beef, now usually poetic for ‘oxen, cattle’.

Citation
  • "beeves, n.". OED Online. December 2016. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/17024?redirectedFrom=beeves (accessed February 08, 2017).

Book page

Ledger A, 1750 - 1772: pg.114
Gouverneur Morris Cash Book, 1811 - 1816: pg.25
Gouverneur Morris Cash Book, 1811 - 1816: pg.46
Ledger B, 1772 - 1793: pg.280
Gouverneur Morris Cash Book, 1811 - 1816: pg.27
Gouverneur Morris Cash Book, 1811 - 1816: pg.50
Gouverneur Morris Cash Book, 1811 - 1816: pg.19
Gouverneur Morris Cash Book, 1811 - 1816: pg.36
Gouverneur Morris Cash Book, 1811 - 1816: pg.53
Gouverneur Morris Cash Book, 1811 - 1816: pg.22
Gouverneur Morris Cash Book, 1811 - 1816: pg.41
Gouverneur Morris Cash Book, 1811 - 1816: pg.54
Gouverneur Morris Cash Book, 1811 - 1816: pg.23
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