Definition of cattle

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Cattle (n. pl.) Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine..

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Kipskin :: Kipskin (n.) Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide..
Glossanthrax :: Glossanthrax (n.) A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
Drover :: Drover (n.) One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market..
Alderney :: Alderney (n.) One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3..
Veterinarian :: Veterinarian (n.) One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon.
Herdsman :: Herdsman (n.) The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.
Hemmel :: Hemmel (n.) A shed or hovel for cattle.
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..
Vacher :: Vacher (n.) A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.
Pasture :: Pasture (n.) Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
Orfgild :: Orfgild (n.) Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle.
Stabling :: Stabling (n.) The act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable.
Bestial :: Bestial (n.) A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial..
Ramoon :: Ramoon (n.) A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle..
Hurdle :: Hurdle (n.) A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes..
Corral :: Corral (v. t.) To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything..
Barbel :: Barbel (n.) Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3..
Pasturer :: Pasturer (n.) One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.
Prangos :: Prangos (n.) A genus of umbelliferous plants, one species of which (P. pabularia), found in Thibet, Cashmere, Afghanistan, etc., has been used as fodder for cattle. It has decompound leaves with very long narrow divisions, and a highly fragrant smell resembling that of new clover hay..
Setterwort :: Setterwort (n.) The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots..
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