noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pig/sheep/cattle farm
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A pig farm in Dorset is the suspected source of the epidemic.
cattle grid
cattle market
cattle prod
cattle prod
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a cattle prod
cattle truck
dairy cattle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Otherwise a simple plough was used. Black cattle , when they were used at all, ploughed light sandy soil.
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There were two types of cattle , buffaloes and black cattle.
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A few dark tracks criss-crossed the grey dew. Black cattle snuffed and chewed.
young
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Traditionally, ostertagiasis has been prevented by routinely treating young cattle with anthelmintics over the period when pasture larval levels are increasing.
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Lovely young human cattle herded by the cannibalistic Morlocks who lived a subterranean life and feared light and fire.
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Some choose to spend money mainly on seeds and others mainly on buying young store cattle or young lambs at market.
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Thus many farmers have young store cattle which they either sell at market or fatten on fodder crops on their own farms.
■ NOUN
beef
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It is clear that it is still campaigning to have licensed growth promotions reinstated for beef cattle .
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Barley straw is soft and palatable, and is widely used as bulk feed for beef cattle .
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Some farmers have beef cattle , some for breeding purposes or for showing purposes.
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He also runs beef cattle and 320 cross ewes.
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Livestock, in the form of beef cattle and sheep, accounted for about 90% of the income.
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Grass was the main crop with sheep, dairy and beef cattle providing the animal enterprises which utilised the grass.
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The Western world provides a willing market for forest products, particularly hardwoods and beef cattle .
dairy
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There is much permanent grass and more dairy cattle than in other parts of East Anglia.
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The farmers concentrated upon dairy cattle and sheep and were dependent upon weaving as a second source of income.
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A prize of nearly £2,000 for top dairy cattle has encouraged a huge entry of 777 animals, bucking downward national trends.
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Kale Kale is grown for feeding dairy cattle .
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Much of it is intensively managed grassland carrying a heavy stocking of dairy cattle .
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Without it, in my opinion, the profit does not compare with that of dairy cattle .
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Most lowland farmers keep some dairy cattle and rear calves as well as wintering and fattening sheep and lambs.
farmer
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An urbanized, unflamboyant son of a cattle farmer , he oozes Midwesternness.
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Who'd be a cattle farmer ?
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Once Abdi was a cattle farmer .
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The Sahel cattle farmers can not compete.
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Picking his way between the groups of emigrants, he went in search of the family of Bambara cattle farmers who had befriended him.
grid
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A large iron gateway sagged permanently open, beside a lodge house and a cattle grid .
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Hicks swung it open and they went carefully over an iron cattle grid and followed the trail downward.
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Go on to Trecadifor Farm and over a cattle grid .
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Follow the narrow road across the cattle grids and go uphill to Park House.
market
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Among items discussed were the Skipbridge village proposal and the resiting of Darlington cattle market .
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A cattle market used to be held in the square but now it serves as a the town's chief car park.
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In addition to the sheep and wool market , Hawkshead was well known for its cattle market.
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At the end of the day the cattle market closed.
prod
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He stands up and starts threatening Paul with an imaginary cattle prod .
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And these, said Perdita, are the cattle prods .
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I, on the other hand, had backache and climbed it as though a cattle prod were taped to my spine.
ranch
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Equally threatening are the dozens of federally subsidized cattle ranches that have depleted underground water sources used by antelope and bighorn sheep.
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But the cattle ranches are shortlived.
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Most cattle ranches in Wyoming are.
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On to southeastern Wyoming, to the horse and cattle ranch of Alan and Lindi Kirkbride.
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Robert Daley settled the property in 1869, first as a horse and cattle ranch and then as a dairy operation.
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Petersburg owns the land, which has been an active cattle ranch for years.
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All this land was cattle ranches then.
rancher
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The drought could not have come at a worse time for Texas cattle ranchers .
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The grain inventories will show whether high corn prices have forced cattle ranchers and hog farmers to cut back feeding rates.
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Governments have frequently made matters worse by granting concessions to cattle ranchers on terms that have created incentives for reckless exploitation.
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After retiring from teaching, Sister kept working as a cattle rancher and writing books.
truck
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They used to remind me uncomfortably of cattle trucks crowded with suffering humanity.
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Later two cattle trucks came, and the drivers put coveralls over their regular clothes and hazed the yearlings into the trucks.
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Later I realised that what made me uncomfortable was not that they looked like the inmates of those cattle trucks .
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Inside it was the size and shape of a cattle truck .
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This seems to explain the early prints showing people travelling in what were little better than cattle trucks .
■ VERB
allow
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Haulage firms would then be allowed to take cattle to abattoirs, with the animals being slaughtered before entering the food chain.
breed
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Tiny producers, for example, have little incentive to invest large sums in artificial insemination in order to breed better cattle .
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They breed cattle and sheep, and their two younger sons help them.
bring
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Thousands of pastoralists have brought their cattle to Nairobi in a desperate search for grazing.
drive
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A variation was to drive cattle on to cultivated land, and then have damages assessed at the full value of the animals.
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If the drought continues, officials fear it could drive cattle producers and farmers out of business permanently.
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A slave men drive like cattle .
feed
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The pulp is sold back to the farmers for feeding to their cattle .
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Prices are rising because of a drought and the escalating cost of grain for cattle feed .
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Human waste fed to cattle could perpetuate these parasites, some of which are picked up by humans from poorly cooked beef.
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Any unsold can be fed to cattle or sheep.
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Every shepherd had an interest in feeding as many cattle as possible.
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The waste will be fed to the cattle .
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Hours later, a farmer feeding cattle three miles south of the town had discovered two men hiding in his barn.
graze
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Following treatment, calves should be moved to pasture which has not been grazed by cattle in the same year.
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And then for an indeterminate period of time he sat appraising the grazing cattle .
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Many parks were deer parks, others were grazed by cattle , sheep and horses.
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The land is now being used to graze cattle .
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There is enough rain in this region to provide grazing for cattle and good land to grow crops.
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Kathy paged through magazines while John tried to concentrate on a framed print of grazing cattle .
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In summer they are grazed by cattle .
keep
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Good in the hedges, too, for keeping cattle and sheep out of planted places.
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After retiring from teaching, Sister kept working as a cattle rancher and writing books.
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But it is good to know they have experience of farming and intend to make it a proper home and keep cattle .
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They keep fewer beef cattle and many of these are stall-fed rather than grazing in the fields.
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Most lowland farmers keep some dairy cattle and rear calves as well as wintering and fattening sheep and lambs.
raise
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He had raised cattle in central Nebraska before coming to Washington in the mid-1970s.
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He had won that place by raising cattle on pastureland made from scratch.
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For three generations, her family has been raising free-range cattle at the El Ombu de Areco ranch.
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He planted trees, raised cattle , married, and had seven children, and seldom spoke a harsh word.
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She and her husband raise cattle in central Queensland's Brigalow Belt.
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Kendall and Flora also raised sheep and cattle .
sell
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They sold all their cattle by private arrangement.
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Gradually he established the right to separate them from the land, to buy and sell serfs like cattle .
slaughter
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The abattoirs are licensed to slaughter cattle not destined for the food chain.
steal
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The local managers of cattle stealing operations exchanged purloined cattle to prevent them from being identified.
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Villagers stole cattle for beef, for a ransom payment, or in some cases for ploughing or local sale.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
head of cattle/sheep etc
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During the 1880s the Scandinavian countries sent an average 106,244 head of cattle to Britain every year.
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He now clears just what he needs to support crops and a few head of cattle.
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Of the nearly 18,000 head of cattle imported through Colombo in 1901, over sixty percent were immediately sent to the slaughterhouse.
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The tribe typically runs about 17, 000 head of cattle on its ranges, but the numbers are dwindling.
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Three raids alone in 1736 led to the loss of 1,026 head of cattle.
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We met one nomad driving 40 head of cattle in the baking sun, hours from the nearest village.
mob of sheep/cattle
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A quarter mile past the cattle guard, you come to a series of three gates.
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A Smithfield is a leggy type of collie of the sort that bullock drovers used when working cattle half a century ago.
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But no one is going anywhere until the cattle move.
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Even grass grows so thinly that cattle can't feed properly.
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He treated Abram well for her sake and Abram acquired sheep and cattle .
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I saved a lot of cattle from dying and a lot of farmers from going on relief.
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If the drought continues, officials fear it could drive cattle producers and farmers out of business permanently.
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Some farmers have beef cattle , some for breeding purposes or for showing purposes.