cattle-range

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• Range

  ·v A kitchen grate. II. Range ·v ·see Range of cable, below. III. Range ·v A bolting sieve to sift...

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• range

  Placed in a line or row; a term hydrographically applied to hills, as "the coast-range." Also, galle...

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• Cattle

  ·noun ·pl Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sh...

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• Cattle

  Abounded in the Holy Land. To the rearing and management of them the inhabitants chiefly devoted the...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• cattle

  Sad cattle: whores or gypsies. Black cattle, bugs. CANT. ...

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• Cattle

  [Bull, Bullock]. ...

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• Battle range

  ·add. ·- The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle,...

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• range, to

  To sail in a parallel direction, and near to; as "we ranged the coast;" "the enemy came ranging up a...

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• range-heads

  The windlass-bitts (which see). ...

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• Ant-cattle

  ·noun Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they s...

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• cattle-bush

  n. a tree, Atalayahemiglauca, F. v. M., N.O. Sapindacea.It is found in South Australia, New South W...

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• cattle-duffer

  n. a man who steals cattle(usually by altering their brands). See also Duffer. 1886. `Melbourne Pu...

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• cattle-racket

  n. Explained in quotation. 1852. `Settlers and Convicts; or Recollections of SixteenYears' Labour ...

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• scrub-cattle

  n. escaped cattle that run wild in the scrub, used as a collective plural of Scrubber (q.v.). 1860...

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• store-cattle

  n. lean cattle bought to befattened for the market; often contracted to stores (q.v.). 1885. R. M....

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• point-blank range

  The distance to which a shot was reckoned to range straight, without appreciable drooping from the f...

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• range of cable

  A sufficient quantity of cable left slack to allow the anchor to reach the ground before the cable i...

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• trying the range

  A lubberly mode of estimating the distance of an enemy's ship or fort by firing a shot at it. ...

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• range of a gun

  The horizontal distance which it will send a shot, at a stated elevation, to the point of its first ...

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