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单词 trap yard
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Definition of trap yard in English:

trap yard

noun
Australian
  • An enclosure into which sheep, cattle, or wild animals are driven, for example prior to shearing, transporting, or taming.

    he was camped out near the foothills and spent his days running wild horses into trap yards
    Example sentencesExamples
    • These were rounded up annually in trap yards and the best were kept and broken in for later riding.
    • For the next two or three months, it was bloody long days and hard work building three sets of trap yards.
    • In a series of running hops interrupted by pauses for observation, they traverse the trap yard.
    • Luke was fine with working alone at the trap yard that morning.
    • For the next 3 years it was all go ahead, contract musterers with bull catchers and helicopters setting up their trap yards and running in the easy animals.
    • At opposite angles a V in the fence, pointing outward from the water, led into a large, strongly built netted trap-yard.
    • It was these early 'gully rakers' who set the mark of what a stockman must aspire to as they ran cattle and horses as wild as deer into concealed trap yards.
    • Trying to dodge emus in a trap yard is tricky as they can only run in a straight line.
 
 
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