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- noun Plural form of
cauf .
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Examples
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I'd putten salt in his baccy, and if I went out to feed the cauves, he told me I left the doors oppen, and wanted to give him his death o 'cowd.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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Her father was dead, all the day-tale men had been called up, and her mother, she assured me, "was that thrang wi 't' hens an 't' cauves, shoo'd no time for milkin 'cows."
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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Shoo gat all t 'housewark done, fed t' hens and t 'cauves, an' was set down to her wheel afore ten o'clock.
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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