cattle run


noun
  1. a barnyard or fenced area adjacent to a barn used as a limited grazing area or exercise lot for cattle.

  2. a passageway used for cattle.

Origin of cattle run

1
First recorded in 1850–55

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How to use cattle run in a sentence

  • The one holds his lands for a cattle-run or a farm, the other employs his in feeding kangaroos or in growing wild roots.

  • Well, I had your cattle run off, an' I burned your buildin's.

    The Trail Horde | Charles Alden Seltzer
  • That thistle has been the cause of ruin to many a sheep and cattle run all over Australia.

    The Land of the Kangaroo | Thomas Wallace Knox
  • The name of "Ocho Rios" had been given to the station by the man who had first taken up the block of country for a cattle-run.

    Tom Gerrard | Louis Becke
  • Leland held the big cattle run in the vicinity, though it lay a long ride from his homestead.

    By Right of Purchase | Harold Bindloss