cattle (noun)
1cattle — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ beef, dairy ▪ Highland, longhorn, shorthorn ▪ native ▪ wild ▪ …
2cattle grid — noun a bridge over a ditch consisting of parallel metal bars that allow pedestrians and vehicles to pass, but not cattle • Syn: ↑cattle guard • Hypernyms: ↑bridge, ↑span * * * noun Britain : cattle guard …
3cattle cake — noun a concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑ …
4cattle guard — noun a bridge over a ditch consisting of parallel metal bars that allow pedestrians and vehicles to pass, but not cattle • Syn: ↑cattle grid • Hypernyms: ↑bridge, ↑span * * * noun, pl ⋯ guards [count] US : a set of bars placed over a shallow hole …
5cattle plague — noun an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes • Syn: ↑rinderpest • Hypernyms: ↑animal disease * * * noun Etymology: translation of German rinderpest …
6cattle tick — noun : a tick (Boophilus annulatus) infesting cattle in the warmer parts of the United States and in tropical America and transmitting the parasite that causes Texas fever; broadly : any of several other ticks attacking cattle especially in… …
7cattle louse — noun : a louse infesting cattle see cattle red louse, long nosed cattle louse, short nosed cattle louse …
8cattle stop — cattle grid, cattle guard (N American) or cattle stop (NZ) noun A frame of spaced bars covering a trench or depression in a road where it passes through a fence, crossable by motor vehicles or pedestrians but not by hoofed animals • • • Main… …
9cattle auction — UK US noun [countable] [singular cattle auction plural cattle auctions] american a cattle market 1 Thesaurus: markets and market stallshyponym places of a particular type …
10cattle drive — noun a) The process of transporting a herd of bovine animals (such as bulls, cows, or steers) by compelling them to walk across a significant distance of countryside, under the escort of drovers on horseback and often over a period of days. With… …
