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Beef cattle   /bif kˈætəl/   Listen
Beef cattle

noun
1.
Cattle that are reared for their meat.  Synonym: beef.





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"Beef cattle" Quotes from Famous Books



... one day of the number of these. In the twenty miles of that day's journey we counted a hundred and fifty dead draught animals. The movement of wagon-trains had, of course, been suspended when Longstreet advanced upon Knoxville, and bad weather had hardly begun then. Beef cattle could be driven in herds, but the country was so stripped of forage that the danger of starvation by the way made this mode of supply nearly as hopeless as ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox
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... sailed from Europe to that part of the Caribbean Sea were manned by bold and daring sailors, and when they knew that San Domingo contained an abundance of beef cattle, they did not hesitate to stop at the little seaports to replenish their stores. The natives of the island were skilled in the art of preparing beef by smoking and drying it,—very much in the same way in which our Indians prepare "jerked ...
— Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts • Frank Richard Stockton
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... of correct form in beef cattle are: (1) A compact form wide and deep throughout, and but moderately long in the coupling. (2) A good back, wide from neck to tail, well fleshed, and straight. (3) A good front quarter, wide, deep, and full. (4) A good hind quarter, long, wide, and deep. (5) Good handling ...
— Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry • Pratt Food Co.
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Words linked to "Beef cattle" :   Hereford, kine, Santa Gertrudis, cows, Charolais, beefalo, whiteface, Bos taurus, Texas longhorn, cattle, oxen, shorthorn, cattalo, Angus, black Angus, Aberdeen Angus, Durham, Galloway, longhorn


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