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beastings

beastings is the alternative spelling of beestings.

beastings is the plural of beasting.

Meaning of beestings

Noun

beestings pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth.
    • [W]ith thy Sickle reap the rankeſt land: / And miniſter the Blade, vvith bounteous hand. / Nor be vvith harmful parſimony vvon / To follovv vvhat our homely Sires have done; / VVho fill'd the Pail vvith Beeſtings of the Covv: / But all her Udder to the Calf allovv.1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 104, lines...
    Synonyms:
    beest, colostrum

Meaning of beasting

Noun

beasting (usually uncountable, plural beastings)

  1. (UK, slang, usually) The imposition of arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.

Questions about beastings

What is beastings the alternative spelling of?
Beastings is the alternative spelling of beestings.

Words near beastings in the dictionary

  1. beastify
  2. beastifying
  3. beastily
  4. beasting
  5. beasting on
  6. beastings
  7. beastish
  8. beastishness
  9. beastkeeper
  10. beastkeepers
  11. beastkin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beastings (page history and authors); beestings (page history and authors); beasting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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