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cow
  1. (uncommon) Beef: the meat of cattle as food.
  2. (uncommon) Any bovines or bovids generally, including yaks, buffalo, etc.
  3. (biology) A female member of other large species of mammal, including the bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants.
  4. (derogatory) A woman considered unpleasant in some way, particularly one considered nasty, stupid, fat, lazy, or difficult.
  5. (mining) A chock: a wedge or brake used to stop a machine or car.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “How many glasses of milk does a dairy cow produce each day?”
cattle
  1. Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).
  2. Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.
  3. (pejorative) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
  4. (obsolete, English law, sometimes countable) chattel
  5. (uncountable, rare) Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “It began on the western frontier, at a time when driving cattle was vital to the survival of an expanding nation.”
      “Neil and Ivan Prentice have been running Wagyu style cattle on their Moondarah property for around six years.”
      “But the full extent of the problem will not be known until Spring when the Brucellosis will cause pregnant cattle to abort.”
cattleguard
  1. A trench under a railroad track and alongside a crossing (as of a public highway), intended to prevent cattle from getting upon the track.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Previously, he served as executive vice president of finance and chief financial officer for Cattleguard, Inc.”
cattelo
  1. A cross between domestic cattle and buffalo.
cowskin
  1. leather made from the hide of a cow or similar animal
  2. Examples:
    1. “They are made of hollowed out tree trunks with cowskin stretched on either end and tied with rawhide strips.”
      “Paintings on cowskin also hang on the walls adding a Latin flavour to the atmosphere.”
      “On the way, feeling lazy, he wrapped himself in his cowskin and went to sleep in a barn's hay-mow.”
cattledom
  1. The realm or sphere of cattle ranching.
cattleman
  1. A man who raises or tends cattle.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The young rancher who filed his complaint is the same cattleman who lost twelve cattle last March.”
      “Aside from his publishing interests, Mr. von Rosen was also a cattleman and rancher in Oklahoma and Illinois.”
      “He was a cattleman and they hated the sheepmen, you know, and used to fight them.”
cowyard
  1. An enclosure for cows close by the farm.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Behind a cowyard of shattered stone pavement and cracked mud stood the farm itself, and around it extended the fields belonging thereto.”
cattleperson
  1. Someone who rears or works with cattle.
cowshit
  1. (vulgar) The excrement of a cow.
cowshed
  1. A small barn for keeping cows.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After I raised the barn, I built a cowshed and horse stall on the east side.”
      “One evening, a boy ran into our kitchen, gabbling breathlessly that a tiger had entered the cowshed and killed a goat.”
      “The park authority compensated the complainant by meeting reasonable costs of fitting double glazing to those windows facing the cowshed.”
cattlegirl
  1. A female child who tends cattle.
cattleboy
  1. A male child who tends cattle.
  2. Examples:
    1. “People also called him a cattleboy, cowpuncher, cowpoke, drover, wrangler, vaquero, buckaroo, ranahan, rannie, and waddie.”
cow
  1. (Britain, dialect) A chimney cowl.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “How many glasses of milk does a dairy cow produce each day?”
cowedness
  1. The quality of being cowed.
cattlepeople
  1. plural of cattleperson
cattlepersons
  1. plural of cattleperson
cattleguards
  1. plural of cattleguard
cattlemen
  1. plural of cattleman
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “At the next table a herd of cattlemen raved about the roast Woodville duck.”
      “He was followed by other cattlemen, as well as woodcutters eager to exploit the tall stands of cedar.”
      “But consumer groups, allied with many U.S. ranchers and cattlemen, want the labeling to begin on schedule.”
cowskins
  1. plural of cowskin
cowsheds
  1. plural of cowshed
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The area where the cowsheds stand will become a forbidden area for poultry and livestock breeding.”
      “On these walks we would visit the cowsheds, which were a delight to us, for often there would be calves frolicking.”
      “Heated conversations are being held around kitchen tables, in school staffrooms, in cowsheds, and in shearing sheds.”
cowyards
  1. plural of cowyard
catteloes
  1. plural of cattelo
kine
  1. (archaic or dialectal) plural form of cow
  2. Examples:
    1. “Like Virgil's, Horace's garden had its vines, olives, bees and kine.”
      “Such a murrain of kine, that dogs and ravens that fed on them were poisoned.”
      “In western South Dakota, cows stood belly deep in a ranch pond, doing their impersonation of the kine in Constable's paintings.”
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