beestings

• A porridge of goat's beestings was made for her, and for meat there were dressed the hearts of every kind of beast, which could be obtained there. —  The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
• People in old times were well satisfied if they were not injured by strange and wild beasts, and that was the only motive of their fights with them, but those of later days have by now learnt to make use of them, for they feed on their flesh, and clothe themselves with their wool, and make medical use of their gall and beestings, and turn their hides into shields, so that we might reasonably fear, if beasts failed man, that his life would become brutish, and wild, and void of resources. —  Plutarch's Morals
• A porridge of goat's beestings was made for her, and for meat there were dressed the hearts of every kind of beast which could be obtained there. —  The True Story Book
• So I put him in the cow-house (not to frighten the little maid), and the folding shutters over him, such as we used at the beestings; and he listened to my voice outside, and held on, and preserved himself. —  Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor

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