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teggs

teggs is the plural of tegg.

Meaning of tegg

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

Questions about teggs

What is teggs the plural of?
Teggs is the plural of tegg.

Words near teggs in the dictionary

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

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