cattle
Plural: cattle
Noun
- Domesticated bovine animals, often raised for meat or milk.
- domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; ; ; - Bible
- "so many head of cattle"
- Domesticated animal of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc), and other hoofed mammals of the genus Bos.
- Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.
- People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
- chattel
- Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.
Verb
- Ellipsis of cattle truck (“to fuck: to break, destroy”).
Examples
- His rack was full of C-A-T-L-E, but he couldn’t spell CATTLE without a second T.
- Many cattle were suffering from a disease called BSE.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English catel, from Anglo-Norman catel (“personal property”), from Old Northern French (compare French cheptel, Old French chetel, chatel, also English chattel) from Medieval Latin capitāle, from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (whence also capital, from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”)). For the sense evolution, compare pecuniary and fee. Also compare Russian поголо́вье (pogolóvʹje, “total number of livestock”) from Russian голова́ (golová, “head”). Doublet of capital and chattel.
Synonyms
Bos taurus, cows, kine, oxen, Bos, beef, bovine, cattlebeast, cattlehead, neat, sheeple
Scrabble Score: 8
cattle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcattle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cattle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary