Sc. [f. COW v.2] The act of ‘cowing,’ cropping or pruning; fig. a dressing, a cropping.
1785. Burns, To W. Simpson, xxvii. But new-light herds gat sic a cowe, Folk thought them ruin’d stick-an-stowe.
Sc. [f. COW v.2] The act of ‘cowing,’ cropping or pruning; fig. a dressing, a cropping.
1785. Burns, To W. Simpson, xxvii. But new-light herds gat sic a cowe, Folk thought them ruin’d stick-an-stowe.
