The plural of "beef" is "beeves"? (Alternately, Another word for 'cattle' is 'beeves'?) Who knew.

From "The Last Ride of German Freddie" by Walter Jon Williams:

Freddie¹ “was playing against a table of drunken stockmen who were celebrating the sale of their beeves and who were losing their money almost as fast as they could shove it across the table.”

[1] Friedrich Nietzsche, who has gone to the Old West and become a Cowboy in this #AltHist tale. #words #vocabulary