quey

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The female is termed cow, but while sucking the mother, a cow-calf; at the age of a year, she is called a yearling quey; in another year, a heifer, or twinter; then, a three-year-old quey or twinter; and, at four years old, a cow.

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  1. A young cow or heifer; a cow that has not yet had a calf. [Scots.] Nought left me o' four-and-twenty gude ousen and ky, My weel-ridden gelding, and a white quey. Fray of Suport (Child's Ballads, VI. 116).

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  1. Also quee; Middle English quye, qwye; from Icelandic kvīga = Swedish qviga = Danish kvie, a quey.
 

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