keb

See also: Keb and k’eb

Scots

Pronunciation

  • (Southern) IPA(key): [kɛb]

Noun

keb (plural kebs)

  1. a ewe that has cast her lamb or failed to rear it
  2. a still-born or premature lamb
  3. a miscarriage in one's affairs, a plan which fails to work

Verb

keb (third-person singular present kebs, present participle kebbin, past kebbit, past participle kebbit)

  1. (of a ewe) to cast a lamb prematurely, give birth to a dead lamb
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