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  • noun Plural form of teg.

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Examples

  • She was smiling, hands cupping her ample breasts, tegs spread wide.

    Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

  • For us, the motivation lay in trying to get from one log to the next without breaking our necks or tegs, or jumping short and laying ourselves open on the splintery edges of the logs.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • Soon she made another wooden dog-only instead of adapting this one from a gnarled stump, she made it from solid wood, with strong and jointed tegs.

    Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

  • Soon she made another wooden dog-only instead of adapting this one from a gnarled stump, she made it from solid wood, with strong and jointed tegs.

    Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

  • If she was away when the shearers came, there'd be no end to their goings on with the girls, and besides, who'd see that the work was done proper and the tegs not scared out of their lives?

    Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

  • Father Lawrence came to see her one April day when the young lambs were bleating on the sheltered innings and making bright clean spots of white beside the ewes 'fog-soiled fleeces, when the tegs had come down from their winter keep inland, and the sunset fell in long golden slats across the first water-green grass of spring.

    Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

  • Alce to come round the corner on his grey horse, with samples of wheat or prices of tegs.

    Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

  • Owing to the scanty and salt pastures of winter, it had always been the custom on the marsh to send the young sheep for grazing on upland farms, and fetch them back in the spring as tegs.

    Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

  • "Fuller!" she shouted, so loud that those who were standing near turned round to see -- "How many wether-tegs have you brought to Lydd?"

    Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

  • She asked him if he had liked the sermon, and then told him to get off home quickly and give the tegs their swill.

    Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

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