Meaning of chilver | Babel Free

Definitions

A female lamb.

Equivalents

Examples

“The chilver and pur lambs, at 2d. per head for about 40 weeks, will cost⟳”

“For the last⟳ few years I have⟳ put⟳ out my Chilver lambs to keep⟳ from the middle of October til Lady-day upon a dry, sheltered, and healthy farm, andd as the result⟳ of this plan⟳, I have⟳ found that the lambs did quite as well there with cut⟳ swedes and hay as they would on my high exposed farm during the winter upon the same allowance of roots and hay, with the addition of a quarter of a pound of best cake per day for each lamb.”

“Among the purchasers of the Chilver lambs were Mr. Morrison, a lot at £170; Mr. Taylor, £80; Mr. Buxton, :£33 10s, Mr Holdsworth £34”

“To repairing Hurne bridge 1 chilver shepe.”

“If anything has to go short, it will not be the heifers or chilver lambs, as they call⟳ their yearling ewes ; and in fact , as I have⟳ already said, except in the occasional seasons of drouth, the Dorset ewe during the four or five years of her life never knows what it is to want⟳.”

“In the summer and autumn, the chilver lambs are frequently folded, being fed on grass, rape, turnips, and hay, from the latter end⟳ of summer till the following spring⟳.”

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