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Cattle
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 Domesticated animal of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc), and other hoofed mammals of the genus Bos. plural, plural-normally
"Many cattle were suffering from a disease called BSE."
- 2 domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age wordnet
- 3 Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or goats. Also rarely applied to horses. plural, plural-normally
"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."
- 4 People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny. derogatory, figuratively, plural, plural-normally
""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."
- 5 chattel English, countable, obsolete, plural, plural-normally, sometimes
"goods and cattle"
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- 6 Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle. plural, plural-normally, rare, uncountable
"The temptation of a lone white man was too great for any gathering of myall-natives, and sheep-fat and cattle-steak seemed there for the spearing, so that a stockman always ran the risk of attack, especially if his shepherds interfered with the native women."
- 1 Ellipsis of cattle truck (“to fuck: to break, destroy”). Cockney, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang, transitive
"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.."
Etymology
From Middle English catel, from Anglo-Norman catel (“personal property”), from Old Northern French (compare French cheptel, Old French chetel, chatel, also English chattel) from Medieval Latin capitāle, from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (whence also capital, from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”)). For the sense evolution, compare pecuniary and fee. Also compare Russian поголо́вье (pogolóvʹje, “total number of livestock”) from Russian голова́ (golová, “head”). Doublet of capital and chattel.
From Middle English catel, from Anglo-Norman catel (“personal property”), from Old Northern French (compare French cheptel, Old French chetel, chatel, also English chattel) from Medieval Latin capitāle, from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (whence also capital, from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”)). For the sense evolution, compare pecuniary and fee. Also compare Russian поголо́вье (pogolóvʹje, “total number of livestock”) from Russian голова́ (golová, “head”). Doublet of capital and chattel.
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