bullock

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But in the middle of the night the oilman got up and moistened some oil cake and plastered it over the calf; he then untied his own bullock and made it lick the oil cake off the calf, and as the bullock was accustomed to eat oil cake it licked it greedily; then the oilman raised a cry, "The bullock that turns the oil mill has given birth to a calf."

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  1. noun A castrated bull; a steer.
  2. noun A young bull.

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  1. Middle English bullok, from Old English bulluc; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English bullok, bulluc, bolok, from Anglo-Saxon bulluc, diminutive of *bulla, *bula, whence English bull. The Irish bolog is from English
 

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/ˈbələk/
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