Cattle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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.”

3. isim 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? […]"”

4. isim chattel

   “goods and cattle”

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

   “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.”

6. fiil 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..”

7. özel isim A surname.