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cattleguard

cattleguard is the alternative form of cattle guard.

Meaning of cattle guard

Noun

cattle guard (plural cattle guards)

  1. (US) Synonym of cattle grid.
    • The Clogher Valley was probably the first line to introduce the cattle guards now so commonly used in light railway construction; where the line leaves or rejoins the roads, a pit about 5 ft. long is sunk between the rails, covered by a grid; this form of protection is arranged on each side of the...1941 May, Voyageur, “The Clogher Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 194
    Synonyms:
    cattle grid

Forms of cattleguard

pluralcattleguards
alternative formcattle guard
alternative formcattle-guard

Origin of cattleguard

From cattle + guard.

Questions about cattleguard

What is cattleguard the alternative form of?
Cattleguard is the alternative form of cattle guard.

Words near cattleguard in the dictionary

  1. cattled
  2. cattled up
  3. cattledom
  4. cattlegirl
  5. cattlegirls
  6. cattleguard
  7. cattleguards
  8. cattlehead
  9. cattleheads
  10. cattleheart
  11. cattlehearts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cattleguard (page history and authors); cattle guard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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