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单词 cattle guard
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cattle guard


noun

a structure consisting typically of parallel bars over a shallow ditch, used to prevent cattle from straying.

Origin of cattle guard

First recorded in 1835–45

Words nearby cattle guard

cattle dog, cattleduffer, cattle egret, cattle-grid, cattle grub, cattle guard, cattleman, cattle market, cattle plague, cattle prod, cattle run
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Example sentences from the Web for cattle guard

  • They had been taken out of a cattle-guard, to be replaced by new ones.

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  • At each road-crossing she had to crawl over a cattle-guard of sharpened timbers.

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