n
(Scotland) A shallow wooden trough for carrying ashes, coals, etc.
v
(Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
v
(intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
n
(Australia) A muster of cattle, for counting and any of various other purposes, during which any animals not previously counted are bangtailed, treated and released.
v
To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
n
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk [(agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.]
n
(Ireland) A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle.
n
(obsolete, figuratively, poetic) A gallows.
n
(Northern England, Scotland) Any hillside or slope.
n
(slang, vulgar) An article built more robustly than its function requires; implies an element of indestructability.
n
(uncountable) Young shoots and twigs.
v
To dress with bush hammer.
n
travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress
n
A stick designed to goad cows, steers, and similar animals in order to prompt them to move in a desired direction, now usually electrified to administer a stimulating shock to the animal.
v
Alternative form of cattle prod (as verb) [(figuratively) To goad or push someone to act.]
n
Alternative form of cattle prod [A stick designed to goad cows, steers, and similar animals in order to prompt them to move in a desired direction, now usually electrified to administer a stimulating shock to the animal.]
n
(Scotland) A stone storage hut or bothy.
n
(now chiefly dialectal) A cottage.
n
(Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
n
(now chiefly historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting.
v
(originally) To fall headlong from a horse.
n
(Scotland) A small heap.
n
Obsolete form of cooperage. [(uncountable) The art or trade of a cooper.]
n
(UK, dialectal) A low stool.
n
(Scotland) Alternative form of cotter (“peasant inhabiting a cottage”) [(mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.]
n
A magnet fed to cattle (where it remains permanently in the rumen or reticulum) to attract any swallowed metal away from the tissues and reduce the risk of hardware disease.
n
(idiomatic) A simple shower in a horse trailer's living area to remove the dirt and grime associated with working around livestock.
n
(obsolete) A drove or herd.
n
A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
n
Alternative form of cruisie [(chiefly Scotland, now historical) An oil-burning lamp.]
v
To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
n
(obsolete, derogatory) One of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.
adj
Of fencing, designed to exclude dingos.
n
A yard where dung is collected.
n
A pen for enclosing sheep, mainly in the Scottish Highlands.
n
A trough from which cattle are fed
n
A box containing animal feed.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To protect; guard.
n
(obsolete) A frankpledge.
n
A steel spur attached to a gamecock (sometimes used figuratively).
n
(UK, dialect) A sheaf of corn.
n
(Scotland, historical) A strip of ground, or corner of a field, once left untilled to avert the malice of the devil from the crop.
n
(obsolete) A mow; a rick for hay.
n
An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.
n
(US) An area of grass on which cars may be parked.
n
A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
n
(obsolete or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) An enclosure; a park
n
(US, archaic outside dialects) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
n
(Scotland, Northern England, Ireland) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
n
(law) The natural pasture of a land, considered as distinct from the land itself; hence, right of pasture (on another man's land).
n
Alternative form of hummock [A small hill; a hillock; a knoll.]
n
(UK, dialect) A meadow or paddock.
n
(agriculture, obsolete) A small stack of grain.
n
(Scotland, Ireland) A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
n
Alternative form of jag (a load of hay or wood): [A sharp projection.]
n
(Scotland, dated) A tenement sink.
n
Alternative form of jowter (“fish-seller”) [(archaic) A buyer and seller of fish, usually operating from a cart or a van.]
n
(archaic) A buyer and seller of fish, usually operating from a cart or a van.
n
(Scotland) The size of a standard load of straw, approximately 450 pounds.
n
(chiefly Scotland and Ulster) A small hill; a knoll.
n
(Ireland, archaic) An armful or roll of grass laid down on the sward to dry for hay.
n
(Northumbria) lake, pool
n
(South Africa) A ridge between ruts made by wheels in a dirt or gravel road.
n
(historical) A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
n
(historical, Scotland) The similar Scottish concept, ¹⁄₈ of a ploughgate and notionally 12+¹⁄₂ or 13 Scottish acres.
n
A (chiefly Scotland) toadstool.
n
(US, dialect) A sled with a pointed front.
n
An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
n
Alternative form of pixie-stool [(UK, dialect, archaic) A toadstool or mushroom.]
n
(Scotland) The Scottish carucate or hide: a unit of land area and tax assessment intended to support a household.
n
A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
n
Obsolete spelling of paddock [(also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.]
n
Alternative form of rampike [(dated, regional) A standing dead tree.]
n
(dated, regional) A standing dead tree.
n
(Scotland) A beam built into the gable of a cottage.
n
(Scotland) The waste land where rank grass grows.
n
(Australia) The process of ploughing a rabbit warren with deep furrows as a form of feral control.
n
A post set up for cattle to rub themselves against.
n
(Orkney and Shetland) Common land used for pasture and digging turf.
v
(dialectal) To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls.
n
(obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
n
Alternative form of sharn [(chiefly Scotland) The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.]
n
(Ireland, possibly obsolete) A heap of sheaves (straw).
n
A place where sheep are dosed with this formulation.
n
Alternative form of sharn [(chiefly Scotland) The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.]
v
(dialectal) A feed mixture for horses consisting of chopped hay and beans.
n
(New Zealand, informal) A worker who deals with timber in the form of slabs.
n
(Canada, Ireland) A plastic device that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby.
v
(Scotland, intransitive) To determine the proportion of sheep or cattle suitable for a given pasture.
n
(obsolete) dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw
n
Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
n
(archaic, poetic) A stallion, especially in the sense of mount.
n
(archaic) A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
n
Alternative form of stirk [(Britain, Scotland, dialectal, dated) A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer.]
n
(Western England dialect) A plough.
n
A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
n
An animal which produces tallow.
n
(historical) A reward for information about the theft of cattle.
n
(dialectal) A low door in a dry-stone wall to allow sheep to pass through; a smoot.
n
(also in plural form) A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of stock animals; a horn tipper.
n
(bodybuilding slang) clipping of trenbolone [A steroid used to increase muscle growth and appetite in livestock.]
n
(UK, obsolete) A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
n
(historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
n
(obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A building.
v
(transitive) To castrate a male sheep or goat.
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