kine Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
    cows; oxen; Bos taurus; cattle.
    • so many head of cattle
    • wait till the cows come home
    • seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible
    • a team of oxen

WordNet

Kine noun plural
Etymology
For older kyen, formed like oxen, fr. AS. c, itself pl. of c cow. See Cow, and cf. Kee, Kie.
Definitions
  1. Cows. "A herd of fifty or sixty kine." Milton.

Webster 1913