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  • 101cattle run — 1. a barnyard or fenced area adjacent to a barn used as a limited grazing area or exercise lot for cattle. 2. a passageway used for cattle. [1850 55] * * * cattle run, a wide extent of grazing land …

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  • 102Cattle Point Light — Infobox Lighthouse caption = location = San Juan Island, Washington coordinates = coord|48.4504|N|122.9634|W|region:US type:landmark yearlit = 1888 automated = yeardeactivated = foundation = Surface construction = Concrete shape = Octagonal… …

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  • 103cattle run — 1. a barnyard or fenced area adjacent to a barn used as a limited grazing area or exercise lot for cattle. 2. a passageway used for cattle. [1850 55] * * * …

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  • 104cattle show — 1. an exhibition of prize cattle by cattle breeders, as at a livestock exposition. 2. Informal. a public appearance by the contenders for a political office, a job, or the like, at which they may be judged by voters, prospective employers, etc.… …

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  • 105cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis. [1865 70, Amer.] * * * …

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  • 106cattle — noun /ˈkæt(ə)l/ a) Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc). Do you want to raise cattle? b) Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses. goods and cattle …

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  • 107cattle — Synonyms and related words: Alderney, Animalia, Ayrshire, Brahman, Chiroptera, Dexter, Durham, Dutch Belted, Galloway, Hereford, Holstein, Indian buffalo, Jersey, Lagomorpha, Longhorn, Polled Hereford, Primates, Red Poll, Red Polled, Rodentia,… …

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  • 108cattle — [13] Ultimately, cattle is the same word as chattel [13], and when it first entered English it had the same meaning, ‘property’. From earliest times, however, it was applied specifically to livestock thought of as property. In the Middle Ages it… …

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  • 109cattle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. livestock; kine, cows, bulls, steers. See animal, domestication. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. stock, cows, steers, calves, herd, beef cattle, dairy cattle, beef on the hoof; see also animal 2 , bull 1 ,… …

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  • 110cattle — [[t]kæ̱t(ə)l[/t]] N PLURAL Cattle are cows and bulls. ...the finest herd of beef cattle for two hundred miles …

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