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Bushes, briers, and other weeds must be destroyed if pasture land would be kept in a profitable state, and only the sheep or the goat is the fully efficient aid of man in caring for such land.

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  1. noun Any of various hollow-horned, bearded ruminant mammals of the genus Capra, originally of mountainous areas of the Old World, especially any of the domesticated forms of C. hircus, raised for wool, milk, and meat.
  2. noun A lecherous man.
  3. noun A scapegoat.
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  • What really got his goat was the images of Israel destroying rocket-launching sites. —  British Blogs
  • What gets my goat is the blithe assumption of many conservatives that a position that doesn't agree with theirs is a sign not just of error, but of active and malicious opposition to the Gospel, and this assumption quickly leads to ad hominem attacks on character and motive. —  Of course, I could be wrong...
  • As regular readers will know, one thing that tends to get up my goat is the flagship Street of Shame section. —  Splintered Sunrise
  • While Muslims consider many animal species, including cattle and camels as 'clean' for sacrifice, the goat is the most preferred animal.
  • But the thing about this endorsement that really gets my goat is the bit after the introduction that goes: —  No Man's Blog
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hircus · glaistig · urisk · gets up my goat · goatsucker · old goat · goat boy · goat rope · get my goat · cabra · kefalotyri

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English got, from Old English gāt.

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  1. from ME. gote, goot, got, gat, plural gœt, get, geet, geit, etc., from Anglo-Saxon gāt (plural gœ¯t, gēt), feminine (or common—the masculine word being bucca or gāt-bucca: see buck), = D. LG. geit, MLG. geite (rare) = OHG. geiz, MHG. geiz, G. geiss = Icelandic geit = Swedish get = Dan. ged = Gothic (Moesogothic) gaits, feminine, a goat, diminutive gaitein, n., a kid, = L. hœdus, masculine, a kid. Cf. Capra (caper) and Hircus.
 

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