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Bloat   /bloʊt/   Listen
Bloat

noun
1.
Swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas.






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"Bloat" Quotes from Famous Books



... alfalfa. The first cutting should be late, when the seed begins to fall: afterwards, when it is well rooted, you can cut it as young as you wish to feed to the stock. Feed it at first sparingly, until the stock becomes accustomed to it, for it causes bloat and excess of blood. After cutting, irrigate the beds frequently, and after a few days, when the roots begin to sprout, weed out all other kinds of grass. Cultivated in this way alfalfa can be mowed six times a year, and it will ...
— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato

... direction we did not hear, and we drove off. He proved a bluff fellow with a bloat yet not unkindly humour, and despite his calling seemed to have something that was human in him. He passed many a joke on that pitiful journey in an attempt to break our despondency, urging us not to be downcast, and reminding us that the last gentleman he had taken from ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill



Words linked to "Bloat" :   distend, tumesce, intumesce, swell, lump, swelling, swell up, tumefy, puffiness



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