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teg

  [teg] ,
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–noun
1. Animal Husbandry.
a. a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
b. the wool shorn from such a sheep.
2. Chiefly British. a two-year-old doe.
3. British Dialect. a yearling sheep.
Also, tegg.

Origin:
1520–30; orig. uncert.
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teg also tegg   (těg)   
n.  A sheep in its second year or before its first shearing.

[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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