[Colloquial contraction of VETERINARIAN or VETERINARY.] A veterinary surgeon.
1862. H. Marryat, Year in Sweden, III. 328. A lieutenant, accompanied by the vet, did the honours of the stables.
1876. Burnaby, Ride to Khiva, xv. (ed. 3), 136. The Kirghiz themselves have but little faith in doctors or vets.
1883. E. Pennell-Elmhirst, Cream Leicestersh., 223. A battered stud was left in the hands of the groom and the vet.
