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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A ewe of the first year.

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  1. n. UK, dialect A ewe lamb of the first year.
  2. n. UK, dialect A sheep three years old.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Prov. Eng. A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old.

Etymologies

  1. Compare Welsh dafad a sheep, ewe. (Wiktionary)

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  • “Sentinals put over them to keep off the Indians, who are enclined to theave haveing Stole Several Small articles those people appeared disposed to give us every assistance in their power dureing our distress - We passed Several Encampments of Indians on the Islands and those near the rapids in which places they took the Salmon, at one of”

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

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  1. hung for a sheep as a lamb
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