Noun

(usually used as plural)

Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).

Do you want to raise cattle ?

Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.

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(pejorative, figuratively) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.

* {{quote-book, 1961, Gerald Hanley, The Journey Homeward, page=155 citation

, passage="I always knew it, but I always denied it, because I'm one of them, and I'm like them." ¶"We're just cattle ," the Prison Governor said, relieved now.}}

chattel

goods and cattle

* {{quote-book, 1552, Parliament of England, An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, and Service in the Church, and Administration of the Sacraments citation

, passage=That then every person so offending and convict, shall for his third offence, forfeit to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, all his goods and cattles , and shall suffer imprisonment during his life.}}

* {{quote-book, 1684, , Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, year_published=1856

, passage=1684 July. Mistris Dorothy Gray, Adminnestratrix of the Goods and Cattles of Mr Edward Gray, late of Plymouth, deceased,

(uncountable, rare)

* , The Squatting Age in Australia, 1835–1847 , Melbourne University Press (1964), page 315:

The temptation of a lone white man was too great for any gathering of myall -natives, and sheep-fat and cattle -steak seemed there for the spearing, so that a stockman always ran the risk of attack, especially if his shepherds interfered with the native women.

* Barry Hannah, “Eating Wife and Friends”, in Airships , Grove Press (1994), ISBN 978-0-8021-3388-5, page 137:

“But you cooked a human being and ate him,” say I.

“I couldn’t help it,” says she. “I remember the cattle steaks of the old days, the juicy pork, the dripping joints of lamb, the venison.”

* 1996 April 3, Emmett Jordan, " Re: AR activist arrested for spreading 'Mad Cow' disease in US", in rec.food.veg, Usenet :

Believe it or not Big Mac is one of the ultra radicals who provide fast food cattle burgers to interstate vehicles who drive all over the place providing scraps for rats, cats, flies, etc, so that the Mad Cow Disease might spread even faster than it would otherwise do.

* 2005 June 25, "Serge" (username), " Re: WOW!!!! WHALE BURGERS...... McDonalds Don't You Get Any Ideas", in aus.politics and other newsgroups, Usenet :

If a particular whale species isn't endangered, then there's not a blind bit of difference between butchering them or cattle.

Whale burgers. Cattle burgers......no difference!

Noun

(es)

A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes ), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.

*15^th century ,

*:The fox went out on a chase one night, / he prayed to the Moon to give him light, / for he had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o. / He had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o.

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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the ).

The fur of a fox.

A fox terrier.

The , so called from its yellow color.

A cunning person.

(lb) A physically attractive man or woman.

*1993 , (Laura Antoniou), (w) , p.90:

*:And Jerry was cute, you know, I liked him, but Frank was a total fox . And he was rougher than Jerry, you know, not so cultured.

*2012 , Adele Parks, Still Thinking of You

*:It wasn't just that Jayne was a fox – although, fuck, was she ever a fox. That arse, those tits, those lips. They could have a really good time together.

(lb) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.

(lb) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.

(lb) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.

*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare)

*:Thou diest on point of fox .