cattle

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I'm still a losin' cattle, and Lord knows where it will stop You've been working to get a quarantine law passed, I remember," Morgan said, feeling this outrage as if the cattle were his own Yes, but Congress is asleep, and them fellers down in Texas never shut their eyes.

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  1. plural noun Any of various chiefly domesticated mammals of the genus Bos, including cows, steers, bulls, and oxen, often raised for meat and dairy products.
  2. plural noun Humans, especially when viewed contemptuously or as a mob.

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  1. Middle English catel, property, livestock, from Old North French, from Old Provençal capdal, from Medieval Latin capitāle, holdings, funds, from neuter of Latin capitālis, principal, original, from caput, head; see kaput- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English catel, katel, assibilated chatel (later chattel, q. v,), property, capital, = Middle Low German katel, katele, from Old French catel, katel, assibilated chatel, chateil, chaptel, chatal, chastal, chetel, chatei, etc., = Spanish caudal (cf. Portuguese caudal, adjective, abundant), from Middle Latin captale, capitale, capital, property, goods (virum capitale, live stock, cattle), whence modern English capital, q. v. Thus cattle = chattel = capital.
 

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