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Answer for the clue "Guernseys ", 6 letters:
cattle
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., "property," from Anglo-French catel "property" (Old North French catel , Old French chatel ), from Medieval Latin capitale "property, stock," noun use of neuter of Latin adjective capitalis "principal, chief" (see capital (n.1)). Compare sense ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen" [syn: cows , kine , oxen , Bos taurus ]
Usage examples of cattle.
The leaves are acrid and pungent, being ungrateful to cattle, and even rejected by geese.
Origin, history, distribution, characteristics, adaptability, uses, and standards of excellence of all pedigreed breeds of cattle, sheep and swine in America.
The British agriculturist thinks that meadow hay is the natural forage for horses and cattle, and for winter turnips are the standby.
And when at last we got up onto the altiplano, the great interior plateau, it was Zoe who called it the pampa, and maintained that we walked there among vast herds of invisible cattle, transparent cattle pastured on the spindrift snow, their gauchos the restless, merciless winds.
The face of Dingaan shone when he saw the cattle, and that night he called us, the council of the Amapakati, together, and asked us as to the granting of the country.
They picked up the eyes of the cattle in little bright points of light, fat contented beasts, the smell of their dung sharp and ammoniac al on the cool night air.
Large tracts of country about here once laid out for arable are now converted into grazing grounds, for the number of cattle is yearly on the increase.
Mai, they herded cattle on the grasslands and pigs in the patches of woodland that stood between the fields, and the young men of the tribe hunted boar and deer and aurochs and bear and wolf in the wild woods that had now been pressed back beyond the temples.
If you will kindly look at the original contract, a copy of which is in your possession, you will notice that nothing is said about the quality of the cattle, just so the pounds avoirdupois are there.
Then they gazed in awed silence as the dark mass of the cattle herds poured down the hills towards them.
So they filled their fantasy world with fabulous machines -- machines that ploughed the sod, cut and baled the grain, even milked the cattle.
She was frankly glad that Billabong devoted most of its energies to cattle, and only put up with the sheep work because, since Daddy was there, it never occurred to her to do anything else but go.
All he knew was horses and cattle, and if he made an enemy of Bly he would be blackballed around every rodeo in the country.
Tyler left them, went back to the cattle boat for his gear, this time looking around at all the different kinds of straw hats there were, boaters, big raggedy ones, lightweight panamas with black bands that looked pretty good.
As the petty officer said, Boget and a dozen other natives were leading at least fifty head of cattle across the fords and up toward the camp.