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cattlehead

noun

Etymology

From cattle + head. Interestingly, both are doublets from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (“head”), through Latin caput (“head”) and from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source; chief”), itself from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), respectively.

  1. inherited from *haubudą✻
  2. inherited from hēafod
  3. derived from caput
  4. derived from *kauput-✻

Definitions

  1. head of cattle

    head of cattle; a neat, a beef, a single bovine

    • Even assuming that our 50-million Muslims eat up 50-million cattle-heads a year at the rate of one cattlehead per human head per year, we shall still have millions and millions of cattle living and multiplying with our food inside them.
    • The mobile veterinary unit had been providing health facilities to the ailing cattlehead in the whole of Thar.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA