cattle
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cattle¹
- /ˈkætəl/
- [ˈkʰætʰəl] ~ [ˈkʰætʰl̩]
- /ˈkæɾəl/
- [ˈkʰæɾəl] ~ [ˈkʰæɾl̩]
Rhymes with -ætəl
Where it comes from
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.
Compare Old Dutch katēl ("moveable property, head of cattle"; whence Middle Dutch cateele, cateile, catteil, catel (“cattle, livestock, moveable property, assets”), modern Dutch kateil), Middle Low German katêle, katêl, kachtele (“moveable property, cattle”), borrowed from the same Romance source.
noun cattle
- Domesticated animals 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.
- 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.
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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? […]"
Similar: beef, Bos, bovine, cattlebeast, cattlehead, neat, kine, sheeple
- chattel goods and cattle
- 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.
verb cattles · cattling · cattled
- 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..
Cattle²
proper noun
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: cows, oxen, kine, bos taurus, cow, bovine, livestock, bull, veal, ranching, beef, feed, bullocks, animal, trailing, heads
Translations
Every language
noun certain other livestock
| Español | ganado |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 家畜 kachiku |
| 中文 | 家畜 jiāchù, 牲畜 shēngchù |
| Português | gado |
| Français | bétail |
| Deutsch | Vieh |
| Italiano | bestiame |
| Ελληνικά | κοπάδι kopádi |
| Русский | скот skot, скоти́на skotína |
| עברית | מִקְנֶה miqné |
noun domesticated bovine animals
| Español | ganado |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 소 so |
| 日本語 | 牛 ushi, 畜牛 chikugyū |
| 中文 | 牛 niú, 家牛 jiāniú |
| हिन्दी | पशु paśu, पशुधन paśudhan, मवेशी maveśī |
| Kiswahili | ng'ombe |
| Português | gado (bovino) |
| Français | bétail, bovins |
| Deutsch | Kühe, Rinder, Rindvieh |
| Italiano | bovini |
| Ελληνικά | βοοειδή vooeidí |
| Română | bovine, vite |
| Русский | кру́пный рога́тый скот krúpnyj rogátyj skot, скоти́на skotína, бык byk, коро́ва koróva |
| العربية | بَقَر baqar |
| עברית | בקר baqár |
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title = {cattle},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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