cattle run
noun
a barnyard or fenced area adjacent to a barn used as a limited grazing area or exercise lot for cattle.
a passageway used for cattle.
Origin of cattle run
1First recorded in 1850–55
Words Nearby cattle run
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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.
Australia, its history and present condition | William PriddenWell, I had your cattle run off, an' I burned your buildin's.
The Trail Horde | Charles Alden SeltzerThat thistle has been the cause of ruin to many a sheep and cattle run all over Australia.
The Land of the Kangaroo | Thomas Wallace KnoxThe 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 BeckeLeland held the big cattle run in the vicinity, though it lay a long ride from his homestead.
By Right of Purchase | Harold Bindloss
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