What is "bullocks"

Usage examples of "bullocks".

Wellesley was adamant that Mackay must stay with his bullocks, but young Hugh wanted to be on the dance floor, and quite right too, except that the poor devil was killed.

Sent to the bullocks and the dromedaries, whatever the hell they were, and after that to the green-coated dregs of the army.

He spat after the departed Captain, then went to find some bullocks and carts.

Be with him at dawn tomorrow, with the bullocks, and you, Captain Torrance, will ensure the daily supplies go up the road every dawn.

None of them spoke English, and Sharpe had no idea which language they did speak, but they were good-natured men, eager to please, and they prodded their heavily laden bullocks onwards.

He swerved southwards, galloping between tents, fires and grazing bullocks, and leaving Sajit far behind.

Numbers of bullocks were soon shot down, and the removal of the hundred and eighty wagons made impossible.

How much had happened since those distant days when as a little herdsboy he had walked behind the bullocks on the great northward trek.

They laboriously recrossed the river, swimming the horses, bullocks and elephants to the southern bank, and floating the guns, limbers and wagons across on rafts.

Hakeswill was sitting beside the river, watching the bullocks being goaded back into the water to cross once again to the north bank.

Then Captain Mackay arrived and insisted that Hakeswill and his six men help organize the transfer of the bullocks across the river.

Six thousand cavalry, nearly all of them Indian, led the way, and behind them were twenty-two pieces of artillery, four thousand sepoys of the East India Company and two battalions of Scots, while the great clumsy tail of bullocks, wives, children, wagons and merchants brought up the rear.

Each march finished by midday when the men would rig their tents and sprawl in the shade while the picquets set guards, the cavalry watered horses and the commissary butchered bullocks to provide ration meat.

Men and women and children and guns and camels and bullocks and rocket batteries and horses and tents and still more men until there seemed to be no end to them.

Several bullocks and about half a dozen horses were feeding in meadows, surrounded by acacias supplied from the vast plantations of Kangaroo Island.