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▪ I. keb, n.1 local.|kɛb|
Also 6 kebbe, 9 kebb.
[Etymology uncertain; cf. G. kibbe, kippe, ewe.]
A ewe that has lost her lamb, or whose lamb is still-born. Also keb-ewe.
1470–73in Rec. Andover 20 Recd pro viij ovibus ecclie vocat[is] Kebbys viijs. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 66 Baytht ȝouis and lammis, kebbis and dailis. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 431 b, Full of sicknesse, and like an olde kebbe full of wrinckles. 1822W. J. Napier Pract. Store-farm. 60 Of lambs, the superabundance of twins has far exceeded the loss by kebbs. 1824Gallovid. Encycl., Keb-Ewes.
b. Comb., as keb-house (see quot.).
1886C. Scott Sheep-Farming 118 Such a shed..is termed a keb-house,—a ‘keb’ being a ewe that has lost her lamb, and the house the place where she may be confined while being made to adopt another.
▪ II. † keb, kebb, n.2
var. cab n.2 Obs., Cavalier.
c1645Tullie Siege Carlisle (1840) 45 Y⊇ whole body charging, the Kebs were put to a second retreat. 1664Depos. Cast. York (Surtees) 118 Hee would banish both the informer and all his like, kebbs as they were.
▪ III. † keb, v.1 Obs. rare.
[Perh. from root of MDu. kebbelen, E.Fris. kabbeln to chatter, babble; MDu. kabbelen (Du. kibbelen), LG. kabbeln to quarrel, dispute.]
intr. To boast, brag.
c1315Shoreham 96 Wanne he aldey swereth ydelleche, In kebbynge and in caute. Ibid. 111 Ȝef that kebbede eny of ous, Ich woȝt wel that he leȝ. Ibid., Wyth kebbynges aperte.
▪ IV. keb, v.2 dial.|kɛb|
[Cf. keb n.1]
intr. Of a ewe: a. To cast a lamb prematurely, or dead. b. to keb at, to refuse to suckle (a lamb).
1816Scott Bl. Dwarf ii, Bewitching the sheep, causing the ewes to ‘keb’. 1883Graham Writings II. 36 (E.D.D.) She wad keb at it, as the black ew did at the white ew's lamb. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Keb, to drop a dead lamb.
Hence kebbed |kɛbd|, ppl. a.
1824Blackw. Mag. XV. 181 A kebbed ewe is one whose lamb dies. 1893Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., When a lamb dies in birth it is called a kebbed lamb and the mother a kebbed yow. |