1 (technical) the male parent of an animal, especially a horse
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2 (old use) a word that people used when they addressed a king
verb [VN]
1 to be the male parent of an animal, especially a horse
2 (old-fashioned or humorous) to become the father of a child
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sire is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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In this entry, sire is tagged as noun.
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