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tegg

tegg noun: a sheep in its second year or before its first shearing.

Noun

tegg (plural teggs)

  1. A sheep in its second year or before its first shearing.
  2. The wool from such a sheep.
    • It would prove much to the advantage of those who keep long woolled sheep if they suffered the lambs of their flock to retain their fleeces until the next year's shearing, as they would then produce a class of wool known by the name of tegg or hogget wool1839, The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal

Forms of tegg

pluralteggs

Questions about tegg

What does tegg mean?
Tegg means a sheep in its second year or before its first shearing.
What part of speech is tegg?
Tegg is a noun.
What is the plural of tegg?
The plural of tegg is teggs.

Words near tegg in the dictionary

  1. tegestologists
  2. tegestology
  3. Tegetmeier
  4. Tegetmeiers
  5. Tegfan
  6. tegg
  7. teggs
  8. Tegh
  9. teglach
  10. Tegmark
  11. Tegmarkian

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