cattle

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Domesticated animal of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc), and other…

   Domesticated animal of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc), and other hoofed mammals of the genus Bos.

   • Many cattle were suffering from a disease called BSE.
2. 2

   Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or goats. Also rarely applied to horses.

   • Mr. Jos had hired a pair of horses for his open carriage, with which cattle, and the smart London vehicle, he made a very tolerable figure in the drives about Brussels.
   • Mangcorn is utilized partly as human food, and partly as fodder for cattle, especially for fattening swine, for which purpose it is considered peculiarly adapted.
3. 3

   People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.

   • "Come, that will do," interrupted Joolby with an impatient growl; "talk, talk, talk—that's all it ever comes to with your kind of cattle. Do you still think that you are playing at charades, girl? […]"
   • "I always knew it, but I always denied it, because I'm one of them, and I'm like them." ¶"We're just cattle," the Prison Governor said, relieved now.
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   1. 4

      chattel

      • goods and cattle
      • That then every person so offending and convict, shall for his third offence, forfeit to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, all his goods and cattles, and shall suffer imprisonment during his life.
      • 1684 July. Mistris Dorothy Gray, Adminnestratrix of the Goods and Cattles of Mr Edward Gray, late of Plymouth, deceased, […]
   2. 5

      Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.

      • “But you cooked a human being and ate him,” say I. “I couldn’t help it,” says she. “I remember the cattle steaks of the old days, the juicy pork, the dripping joints of lamb, the venison.”
   3. 6

      Ellipsis of cattle truck (“to fuck

      Ellipsis of cattle truck (“to fuck: to break, destroy”).

      • I would talk to rayburn, and the people who converted it..I have assumed from what you said that it was an old coal burner converted...or is it a revamped oil burner? In which case the revampers may have cattled it..
   4. 7

      A surname.

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