vee, noun
/fɪə/
- Forms:
- Show more Also vei, vieh, vij.
- Origin:
- DutchShow more Dutch, cattle.
1. obsolete. Livestock, especially sheep and goats.
1836 J. Collett Diary. I. 6 Dec.Set off this Morning up the Country to Purchase Vee for Slaughter.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 529Vee, Cattle, but more frequently small stock, as sheep and goats, as distinct from beesten, cattle.
2. combinations
vee-boer /-buːr/, /-bʊə(r)/ [South African Dutch, boer farmer], (a) obsolete a cattle farmer; (b) in historical contexts, an early Dutch settler given permission to farm cattle in an area remote from the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope;
vee kraal /- krɑːl/ obsolete [South African Dutch, kraal enclosure, shelter], a shelter for livestock; a vee place;
1824 S. Afr. Jrnl I. 29Poor Gert Schepers, a Vee Boer of the Cradock District, was less fortunate in an encounter with a South African lion.
1931 V. Sampson Kom Binne 67This was the house flock and..they had another at the vee-post, which was a kraal around the hill, in charge of the separate herd, the object of the division being to distribute the good veld between the two flocks.
Livestock, especially sheep and goats.
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