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- noun Plural form of
quey .
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Examples
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"The clash in the kirkyard is worth half a dozen sermons," say the unregenerate, and though no kirkyard is about the Zion of our parish, the people are used to wait a little before home-going and talk of a careful selection of secular affairs; not about the prices of hoggs and queys, for that is Commerce, nor of Saturday night's songs in the tavern, for that (in the Sabbath mind) is Sin.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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"Man, if I had twenty more years I would grow hoofs on your horse and udders on your in-coming queys."
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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He would relate with exactness how many queys his father had, the records of mortality among the wintering sheep, the favourable prospects of the spring lambs -- "abune the average -- aye, I will not deny, clean abune the average."
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A moment afterwards Ralph bent to lay a hand upon the head of one of the placid queys [Footnote: Young -- cows.] that had watched the courtship with full, dewy eyes of bovine unconcern.
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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