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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kine/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kine/#x1)
- The farmer milked the kine every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kine/#x2)
- Long ago the kine grazed by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kine/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1015/)
- [And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1300/)
- [And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1319/)
- [The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1327/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.