cattle guard
- a structure consisting typically of parallel bars over a shallow ditch, used to prevent cattle from straying.
Origin of cattle guard
First recorded in 1835–45
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They had been taken out of a cattle-guard, to be replaced by new ones.
Joe Strong, the Boy FishVance Barnum
At each road-crossing she had to crawl over a cattle-guard of sharpened timbers.
Main StreetSinclair Lewis