Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An arrangement other than a halter or tie for securing cattle to their racks or mangers.
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Examples
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In LA it thrusts its head _in circo uituli_, which I have rendered conjecturally as the context seems to require, but I can find no information as to the exact nature of this adjunct to the cattle-stall.
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He had wandered about the market all the afternoon; visited every sheep-pen, pig-pen, and cattle-stall; watched the racing up and down of sundry horses; seen the transfer of several baskets of fowl, and peeped into the corn exchange, when he thought it was about time to return home; but as he passed an inn-yard he lingered to see a farmer commence his homeward journey.
Leslie Ross: or, Fond of a Lark Charles Bruce
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The bones were given to the dog to eat; if he did not eat them all up, the remains were buried under the dung in the cattle-stall.
Chapter 50. Eating the God. § 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits 1922
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During thunderstorms a bit of the wreath is burned on the hearth with a prayer; some of it is given to kine that are sick or calving, and some of it serves to fumigate house and cattle-stall, that man and beast may keep hale and well.
Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe. § 5. The Midsummer Fires 1922
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Hence about Oels, near Strehlitz, the people on that day arm themselves with old brooms and drive the witches from house and home, from farmyard and cattle-stall, making a great uproar and clatter as they do so.
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During thunderstorms a bit of the wreath is burned on the hearth with a prayer; some of it is given to kine that are sick or calving, and some of it serves to fumigate house and cattle-stall, that man and beast may keep hale and well.
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Hence about Oels, near Strehlitz, the people on that day arm themselves with old brooms and drive the witches from house and home, from farmyard and cattle-stall, making a great uproar and clatter as they do so.
Chapter 56. The Public Expulsion of Evils. § 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils 1922
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The bones were given to the dog to eat; if he did not eat them all up, the remains were buried under the dung in the cattle-stall.
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While this controversy went on, a rich landowner named Adolios had the Sleepers 'cave opened, to use it as a cattle-stall.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The bones were given to the dog to eat; if he did not eat them all up, the remains were buried under the dung in the cattle-stall.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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