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cattlehead

cattlehead noun: head of cattle; a neat, a beef, a single bovine.

Noun

cattlehead (plural cattlehead or cattleheads)

  1. (India) head of cattle; a neat, a beef, a single bovine
    • Even assuming that our 50-million Muslims eat up 50-million cattle-heads a year at the rate of one cattlehead per human head per year, we shall still have millions and millions of cattle living and multiplying with our food inside them.1963, Mother India, volume 29, page 14, column 2
    • The reasons for death were more or less similar to cattleheads. In the case of poultry, in all, 1312 died mainly due to Ranikhet. These deaths of livestock comprised 5, 9.6 and 19.5 percent respectively of the present stock of cattleheads, goat and poultry (Tables – 14 and 15).1984, Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, Effects of Flood (1984) in Bangladesh: Survey of Nine Villages in Comilla, page 16

Examples of cattlehead in a sentence

  • The mobile veterinary unit had been providing health facilities to the ailing cattlehead in the whole of Thar.1988, Pakistan Year Book, page 427:
  • The Local Government Engineering Bureau (LGEB) has built 2 killas as shelter for cattlehead.1992, Raana Haider, A. Atiq Rahman, Saleemul Huq, editors, Cyclone '91 Revisited: A Follow-up Study, Bangladesh Center for Advanced...
  • As a result, most farming families now cannot keep more than a pair of cattlehead each, the bare minimum for operating a plough to till the land.1995, Bara Parang: The Tale of the Developmental Refugees of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, →ISBN, page 65:
  • Whenever a cattlehead was killed by the tiger, the men sprayed these poisonous chemicals copiously on the carcass and even kept the semi-solid balls of this substance namely carbofuran, B.H.C.1995, Rahul Shukla, Killing Grounds: The Saga of Encounters in Wild, Siddhi Books, page 114:

Forms of cattlehead

pluralcattlehead
pluralcattleheads

Origin of cattlehead

From cattle + head. Interestingly, both are doublets from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (“head”), through Latin caput (“head”) and from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source; chief”), itself from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), respectively.

Questions about cattlehead

What does cattlehead mean?
Cattlehead means head of cattle; a neat, a beef, a single bovine.
How do you use cattlehead in a sentence?
The mobile veterinary unit had been providing health facilities to the ailing cattlehead in the whole of Thar.
What part of speech is cattlehead?
Cattlehead is a noun.
What is the plural of cattlehead?
The plural of cattlehead is cattlehead.

Words near cattlehead in the dictionary

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

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