Definition of "quey" []

• A heifer (noun)

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• "Ye might try it on the bauson-faced year-auld quey; an it does nae gude, it can do nae ill. —"
• ""I said I had a name for the thing; but they were no friends of mine who gave me the credit, and I never stole stot or quey in all my life.""
• "Some other defaulters were dealt with before the Mac-Nicolls, a few throughither women and lads from the back-lanes of the burghs, on the old tale, a shoreside man for houghing a quey, and a girl Mac Vicar, who had been for a season on a visit to some Catholic relatives in the"