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Meaning cattle meaning

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cattle

Cattle are a group of cows or bulls, whether they are male or female. The cattle are grazing (eating grass) in the field. How many head of cattle (how many cattle) do you have?

cattle

(= cows, kine, oxen) domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age so many head of cattle wait till the cows come home seven thin and ill-favored kine — Bible a team of oxen

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Topics cattle topics

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Simple sentences

He's specialized in the transport of cattle.
I raise cattle.
Cattle feed on grass.
Cattle were grazing in the field.
Their cattle are all fat.
The cattle are marked with brands.
There are about 500 cattle on the ranch.
In Central America, forests are replaced by cattle ranches.
He learned how to raise cattle.
He is breeding cattle on his farm.
He raises horses and cattle.
The cowboys rounded up the herd of cattle.
Flies high the cow and low the cattle, a twister does the farmyard rattle.
They stole horses and cattle.
Because of the famine, the cattle starved to death.
I rear cattle.
He breeds cattle and horses.
My father has a ranch and breeds cattle and horses.
He began to raise beef cattle.

Movie subtitles

I cannot live like a peasant in those places where I drown, at those tiny man-to-man houses that are like his own cattle.
Another thing, take our cattle raising.
But here is the ideal cattle raising section.
Western cattle opened at 15 and a quarter.
I'll shove the horses and the cattle right on through.
My father has thousands of cattle.
I'll give you a bond on the City of London for your cattle.
We drove our cattle down to Marseille to sell to you Crusaders for gold not promises.
Seize all his cattle!
Herds of cattle and sheep.
How many head of cattle have you in Navarre?
Drive your cattle and your carts here into my camp.
Robert, have his cattle driven into our lines and the grain stored in our ships.
I gave him the cattle, and he gives you a crown.
Arabs buy and sell women like cattle.
And the cattle?
The chief ordered to quickly collect two hundred heads of cattle from the nearest settlements.
Before the sunset, gather here all the driven-away cattle!..
Trade cattle.
We stowed away on a cattle boat.
All the way from America on a cattle boat for this Mr. McLaurel.
He talks about women like cattle.
That's what they do with cattle just before the slaughter.
Nothin' 'til them cattle men try to drive their herds through without payin'.
That low-down skunk sucked me into betting' my ranch and cattle.
I been handling' cattle around these parts for quite a spell. and met some of the toughest hombres they got. and I'm still here.
Kent's got ahold of every ranch in the valley. and he wants to charge two bits for every head of cattle.
Mr. Hammer. Another thing, take our cattle raising.
I blew that cattle boat in such a hurry I left my wrap.
There's been a cattle show.
That low-down skunk sucked me into betting' my ranch and cattle. - and then switched cards on me.
I see now why you don't need guns. and why I can't get my cattle through.
Ready to start bringin' my cattle through. - Do I pay you off?
I brought those cattle through, I didn't pay a penny.
Well, I came over on a cattle boat.
We used to punch cattle together.

News and current affairs

For most of the 20 th century, Brazilian elites thought that they could get by on natural resources - cattle ranches, coffee plantations, fruit juices, and soybean farms.
At the same time, the methane-producing cattle population has risen to 1.4 billion, contributing to the increasing rate of destruction of tropical rainforests, which releases carbon dioxide and contributes to faster species extinction.
Arab raiders were crossing Israel's unfenced borders to rob cattle and steal farm implements, sometimes attacking civilians.
Nevertheless, regional discrepancies remain massive: cows in the Netherlands can produce roughly 9,000 liters of milk annually, while Zebu cattle in the tropics produce only about 300 liters.
So endemic is the buying and selling of legislators that parliament looks a lot like a cattle market.
Fulani cattle herdsmen and butchers, originally from the country's north, are a familiar scene in eastern cities and towns.
After ploughing the land in preparation for winter wheat, however, the farmers slaughtered the cattle because they could not keep them fed throughout the winter, because no fodder was provided.
Cattle herding allowed nomads to create livelihoods in an increasingly unpredictable and challenging environment, characterized by an arid climate and scarce resources.
In Europe, mad cow disease shocked many people, not only because it shattered beef's image as a safe and healthy food, but also because they learned that the disease was caused by feeding cattle the brains and nerve tissue of sheep.
People who naively believed that cows ate grass discovered that beef cattle in feed lots may be fed anything from corn to fish meal, chicken litter (complete with chicken droppings), and slaughterhouse waste.
Yet, despite these well-founded criticisms, over the last 20 years factory farming - not only of chickens, but also of pigs, veal calves, dairy cows, and, in outdoor feedlots, cattle - has spread rapidly in developing countries, especially in Asia.
For example, the genes associated with digestion of lactose are more prevalent in populations that have traditionally bred cattle and consumed milk.
In Indonesia, for example, Animals Australia recorded undercover videos showing such brutal treatment of Australian-raised cattle that Australia's government suspended cattle exports to the country.
Reducing livestock production in order to limit cattle-related methane emissions and deforestation - significant factors contributing to climate change - would also improve human health.
Eating fewer animal products would reduce food prices as well, because cattle are fed on grain.
BSE occurred as an epidemic in the UK after its identification in 1986, and several million BSE-infected cattle are likely to have entered the human food chain between 1980 and 1996.
Nor does he needs expensive machinery to plant his seeds; his plow is drawn by cattle, and he pushes seeds into the ground with his bare hands.
From this approach, we have learned, for example, that the ability to digest milk as adults evolved within the last 10,000 years - and several times - in cultures that domesticated sheep, goats, or cattle.
If the epidemic were in decline, it might be anticipated that the average age of the patients would increase in the final stages (as occurred with cattle in the UK that were infected with BSE).
They are making sex slaves of some women, branding some victims like cattle, and maiming and mutilating women and girls, some as young as three years old, by destroying their vaginas and other internal organs.

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