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stirk Definition

stirk (stʉrk)

noun

Brit. a bullock or heifer, esp. one between one and two years old

Etymology: ME < OE stierc, akin to Goth stairo, barren: see sterile

stirk Quotes

He that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow from a Lowland strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame upon.

—Scott, Sir Walter