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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bullock
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Smithfield is a leggy type of collie of the sort that bullock drovers used when working cattle half a century ago.
▪ Anne Hopper winced as she looked at the remains of the bullock lying on the large wooden worktop in the prison kitchen.
▪ He also noticed several cannons being dragged into the sepoy camp by bullocks from the direction of the bridge of boats.
▪ His heart cannoned round his chest like a bullock in a pen.
▪ Lightweight bullocks under 400k sold to £592 and £171.72 per 100k for a 290k Simmental selling at £498.
▪ The 400-500k bullocks sold to £820 and £167.44 per 100k for a 430k Charolais selling at £720.
▪ They were not even small bullocks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bullock

Bullock \Bul"lock\, n. [AS. bulluc a young bull. See Bull.]

  1. A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.

    Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old.
    --Judges vi. 25.

  2. An ox, steer, or stag.

Bullock

Bullock \Bul"lock\, v. t. To bully. [Obs.]

She shan't think to bullock and domineer over me.
--Foote.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bullock

Old English bulluc "young bull," from Proto-Germanic *bulluka-, from the stem of bull (n.1). Now always a castrated bull reared for beef.

Wiktionary
bullock

n. 1 (context archaic English) A young bull. 2 A castrated bull; an ox. vb. (context obsolete English) To bully.

WordNet
bullock
  1. n. young bull

  2. castrated bull [syn: steer]

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Bullock -- U.S. County in Alabama
Population (2000): 11714
Housing Units (2000): 4727
Land area (2000): 625.012619 sq. miles (1618.775183 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.043659 sq. miles (2.703063 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 626.056278 sq. miles (1621.478246 sq. km)
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 32.098285 N, 85.704915 W
Headwords:
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Bullock, AL
Bullock County
Bullock County, AL
Wikipedia
Bullock

Bullock may refer to:

  • Bullock (in British English), a castrated male bovine animal of any age
  • Bullock (in North America), a young bull (an uncastrated male bovine animal)
  • Bullock (in Australia and New Zealand), an ox, an adult bovine animal used for draught (usually but not always a castrated male)
  • Bullock County, Alabama
    • Bullock Correctional Facility, a medium-security Alabama Department of Corrections prison
  • Bullock, a community in the township of Lanark Highlands, Ontario, Canada
  • Bullock, New Jersey, an unincorporated community in Burlington County
  • Bullock, South Dakota, a ghost town
  • Bullock Channel, a water channel in the North Coast region of British Columbia, Canada
  • Bullock Bluff, the northern point of Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada
  • Mount Bullock, a mountain in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada
  • Bullock Harbour, near Dalkey, Ireland
  • Bullock Park, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
  • Bullock Hotel, Deadwood, South Dakota
  • Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, Texas
  • Bullock Report (A Language for Life) (1975)
  • Bullock Report (Industrial democracy) (1977)
  • Bullock's, a defunct department store chain based in Los Angeles, California
  • Bullock (surname)
Bullock (surname)

Bullock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Bullock family
  • Alan Bullock (1914–2004), historian and academic
  • Albert Bullock (1884–1951), English footballer
  • Alexander H. Bullock, governor of Massachusetts from 1866 to 1868
  • Anna Mae Bullock, birth name of Tina Turner, American singer, dancer and entertainer
  • Arthur Bullock (1909–1997), English professional footballer
  • Bob Bullock (1929–1999), American politician from Texas
  • Charles J. Bullock (1869–1941), American economist, professor at Harvard
  • Chick Bullock, American jazz and dance band vocalist
  • Craig Anthony Bullock, known as DJ Homicide
  • Dan Bullock, world history pedagogue
  • Darren Bullock (born 1969), former English footballer
  • Ernest Bullock (1890–1979), English organist, composer, and educator
  • Fred Bullock (1886–1922), English footballer
  • Geoff Bullock (born 1956), Australian Pentecostal pastor and songwriter
  • George Bullock (professor) (c. 1521 – 1572), English Catholic theologian
  • Guy Bullock (1887–1956), diplomat and mountaineer
  • George Bullock (sculptor) (1777–1818), English sculptor and furniture maker
  • Harvey Bullock (comics), fictional character from Batman
  • Harvey Bullock (writer) (1921–2006), American screenwriter
  • Hiram Bullock (1955–2008), American jazz-funk guitarist
  • Jim J. Bullock (born 1955), American actor
  • Jeffrey Bullock, American university president
  • Jeffrey W. Bullock, American politician
  • Jimmy Bullock, English footballer
  • John Bullock (bishop) (died 1439), Augustinian canon and prelate
  • Lawrence Bullock (born 1955), American poet, playwright, musician and actor
  • Lee Bullock (born 1981), English footballer
  • Louis Bullock (born 1976), American basketball player
  • Martha Bullock (1851–1939), wife of Seth Bullock
  • Martin Bullock (born 1975), English footballer
  • Matthew Bullock, African-American man who was charged with intent to murder without evidence and fled to Canada
  • Matthew Bullock (footballer) (born 1980), retired English footballer
  • Mickey Bullock (born 1946), English former footballer
  • Mike Bullock, American comics artist
  • Norman Bullock, English footballer and football manager
  • Red Bullock (1911–1988), Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Richard Bullock (1847–1921), Cornish sharpshooter, also known as Deadwood Dick
  • Robert Bullock (1826–1905), American politician
  • Rufus Brown Bullock (1834–1907), Reconstruction era governor of Georgia
  • Sandra Bullock (born 1964), American actress
  • S. Scott Bullock (born 1956), American actor
  • Seth Bullock (1849–1919), United States marshal
  • Simon Bullock (born 1962), English footballer
  • Steve Bullock (disambiguation), multiple individuals, including the current Governor of Montana and the current Mayor of Lewisham
  • Theodore Holmes Bullock (1915–2005), American neurologist
  • Thomas Bullock (Mormon) (1816–1886), English Mormon pioneer
  • Tony Bullock (born 1972), English footballer
  • Walter Bullock (1907-1953), American song composer
  • William Bullock (actor), English actor
  • William Bullock (collector), English traveller, naturalist and antiquarian
  • William Bullock (inventor), American who invented the web rotary printing press
  • William H. Bullock, U.S. Roman Catholic churchman
  • Wynn Bullock, American photographer

Usage examples of "bullock".

Too late now, Doc knew, to visit the offices of Howard Bullock, which the girl stated were downtown.

Howard Bullock, the young man who, according to the girl had been the last to see Homer Dale, had now vanished.

Savage left his car parked in a dark side street and walked a block to the Bullock residence.

The driver told that Bullock had been driven to a small flying field near the New Jersey end of the George Washington Bridge.

Anderson Bullock was aware of a swift drowsiness that was flowing over him.

Anderson Bullock awake, he gave a shout and hurried out onto the porch.

It will be handed over to you when I see Howard Bullock released, in my custody.

It was clear to him that there was where Howard Bullock was being held.

Renny and Howard Bullock, meanwhile, came to the surface on the far side of the plane.

Howard Bullock was still puzzled as to how Doc could tell the direction.

We had come together because we had been told that our patient, a Red Poll bullock, was of an uncooperative disposition, and we thought that a combined operation was indicated.

Siegfried and I were looking gloomily at the bullock when Luigi stepped forward.

I was waiting for a bullock to be dehorned, not for a hapless victim to lay his head upon the block.

Dunning brothers were needed to bring the bullock to a halt, and they stood there, leaning back on the rope and breathing heavily as they waited for me to make the next move.

Point is, though, that young Hugh was put in charge of the bullock train before Assaye.