biestings

English

Noun

biestings pl (plural only)

1. Alternative spelling of beestings (“first milk after giving birth”)
   • 1901 May 24, “Dairying in Australia”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎^[1], volume 4, number 6, page 176:

     "Biestings," or milk from newly-calved cows, should not be sent to the factory or creamery, nor separated till after the eighth milking.