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stirk

[ UK /stˈɜːk/ ]
NOUN
  1. yearling heifer or bullock

How To Use stirk In A Sentence

  • The use of markets is prohibited for pregnant stock, stirks under six months and lambs under 12 weeks.
  • Christsonday cum owt of the snaw in liknes of a staig '; [216] at Auldearne in 1662,' somtym he vold be lyk a stirk, a bull, a deir, a rae, or a dowg '; [217] at Hartford, Connecticut, 1662, Rebecca Greensmith said that The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
  • On the low road it was not so bad; but when we took the hill road again, I fain would have turned my back to the gale, and stood like a stirk on a wet day, but I powled on after Dan, thinking shame of my coward heart. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • I didn't like that Zsasz kind of eclipsed him, because Stirk was scarier. Top Five Additions to Batman’s Rogues Gallery of the Past 25 Years | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • By the end of the day, the overall top price was £724 for a stirk from Messrs J & P Thomson, Garth, South Ronaldsay.
  • Briggs was hanging on to a particularly wild stirk, his back towards me, and I'll never know if he was thrown back or one of the other men nudged my arm because next moment he let out an anguished yell. Every living thing
  • ‘Well!’ she said, ‘Yah know, it’s getting up like nah (now), between a cah (cow) and a cofe — what we call a stirk, yah know, Miss Bronte; will yah turn it this way if yah happen to see’t, as yah’re going back, Miss Bronte; nah DO, Miss Bronte.’” The Life of Charlotte Bronte
  • I drew nigher without being perceived, and the light still holding, saw that 'twas a young stirk or heifer the man was disembowelling. Border Ghost Stories
  • Indeed the Lairig an Laoigh can be translated as the pass of the stirks, or calves.
  • “And leave us neither stirk nor stot,” said the youngest brother, who now entered, “nor sheep nor lamb, nor aught that eats grass and corn.” The Black Dwarf
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