Lexicographical Neighbors of Homebreds
Literary usage of Homebreds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Treatise on Cattle, the Ox, the Sheep, and the Swine by John Lawrence (1809)
"NORFOLK homebreds, so styled since that county, from its great improvement in
... These homebreds, nevertheless, are found to graze earlier and quicker than ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1873)
"homebreds, sb. pi. cattle of the Norfolk breed. Horn, v. to gore or wound with
the horns. Horse-brambles, sb. pi. briars; ..."
3. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Suffolk: Drawn Up for the by Arthur Young, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) (1804)
"The advantages I expect from this latter plan, are that the homebreds will, at 3!
years, weigh more than the Scots; that, should I be obliged (from such a ..."
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