A horned bovine animal, esp. (in later use) an ox, a bullock.

With plural agreement. Cattle collectively.

Cattle; livestock.

Cattle.

In plural. Cattle.

an animal used for draught or for ploughing; an animal of the fields, a wild animal.

Cattle, oxen. Also: an individual ox, a bullock. Cf. nowt, n.1

Now usually confined to, or understood of, bovine animals.

Livestock; = cattle, n. II. Obsolete. rare.

An ox; any animal of the ox kind; esp. a fattened beast, or its carcase. collective. Cattle. U.S.

With attributes: horned cattle: oxen, bovine animals.

plural. Cattle. U.S.

Cattle.

Plural of beef, n.; now usually poetic for ‘oxen, cattle’.