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Stirk vs Stirp - What's the difference?

stirk | stirp |

As nouns the difference between stirk and stirp

is that stirk is a yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer while stirp is a line descended from a single ancestor.

stirk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect, dated) A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 20:
  • *:he could stop a running stirk by the horns, so strong he was in the wrist-bones.

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    stirp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology, anthropology) A line descended from a single ancestor.

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