kine
/kʌɪn
/plural noun archaic
Cows collectively: the lowing kine came home at twilight...
- The crops of Egypt withered in the fields and the kine died in the pasture, and the children of Egypt went hungry; their ribs and bones stuck out like those of corpses.
- Dispossessed, deprived, discriminated against, treated as kine rather than kin, the black and coloured people of that supremely beautiful and otherwise fulsomely promising land had no weapons to fight back with - except themselves.
- The twelfth-century Metrical Dinshenchas also contain a place name stanza about Howth which mentions ‘seven hundred kine, red eared, pure white.’
