A halt was ordered the next day, in order to make ourselves strong by eating the beeves, which we freely slaughtered.
They had with them 200 pack-horses laden with flour, and the remainder of the beeves.
Wagons are on the way; a large number of beeves are in the neighborhood, and detachments are out to bring them in.
The whole 3,500 head of beeves will be shipped East this fall.
In some of the yards not less than five hundred beeves are slaughtered daily.
We thence all marched to the mines, where we killed three beeves to feed the Indians.
You have, probably, 249 received our order on Colonel Lewis, to deliver you any of the beeves he may have purchased.
One with lauds and beeves, with rents and consols, mark you?
To be offered by you: it shall be a male without blemish of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats.
"Hyeh's our first gather o' beeves on the ranch," continued the Virginian.
c.1300, from Old French buef "ox; beef; ox hide" (11c., Modern French boeuf), from Latin bovem (nominative bos, genitive bovis) "ox, cow," from PIE root *gwou- "cow, ox, bull" (see cow (n.)). Original plural was beeves.
"to complain," slang, 1888, American English, from noun meaning "complaint" (1880s). The noun meaning "argument" is recorded from 1930s. The origin and signification are unclear; perhaps it traces to the common late 19c. complaint of U.S. soldiers about the quantity or quality of beef rations.
(an old English plural of the word beef), a name applicable to all ruminating animals except camels, and especially to the Bovidce, or horned cattle (Lev. 22:19, 21; Num. 31:28, 30, 33, 38, 44).