kine

«kine» in Mova's school dictionary: an old word for cows, used as the plural of cow — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (kine), plural only; old use

meaning for a pupil

Kine is an old word for cows, used as the plural of cow. tree →

sense in the lessons

a rare old word in folk songs and tales; it names farm animals, as camels and kine do

examples

• Heavy are the kine in the field. tree →
• The farmer milked the kine every morning. tree →
• Long ago the kine grazed by the river. tree →

note

kine is a plural count of cows; in a problem, count them as cows and say the number.

In the corpora

• (32-16) thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.
• And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine.
• And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine.
• The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «kine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.