See Also: Cattle(medicine)
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cattle truck(dictionary)
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cattle (iou)



cattle noun. ME.
[from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French catel var. of Old French chatel CHATTEL.]
I. Property.
(Personal) property; wealth, goods. ME-L15.
A chattel. L15-E18.
II. Treated as pl. Livestock.
Animals of the genus Bos, oxen; (now arch. & dial.) livestock, (in stables) horses. ME.
black cattle oxen of Scottish and Welsh highland breeds, orig. black.
contempt. People (likened to cattle). arch. L16.
Vermin; insects. Only in 17.
Comb.: cattle-cake concentrated food for cattle, in cake form; cattle-dog Austral. & NZ a dog bred or trained to work cattle; cattle-egret a small white heron, Bubulais ibis, often associated with grazing cattle; cattle-grid, (US) cattle-guard a ditch covered by spaced bars to allow the passage of vehicles and pedestrians but not cattle etc.; cattle-lifter a cattle-thief; cattleman N. Amer. a person who tends or rears cattle; cattle-plague rinderpest; cattle-rustler a cattle-thief; cattle-stop NZ = cattle-grid above; cattle-truck a truck for the transport of cattle; fig. a crowded uncomfortable vehicle.