Crossword clues for cattle grid
cattle grid
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A grid of parallel metal bars designed as an obstacle to prevent hooved animals from passing.
WordNet
n. a bridge over a ditch consisting of parallel metal bars that allow pedestrians and vehicles to pass, but not cattle [syn: cattle guard]
Wikipedia
A cattle grid (UK English) – also known as a stock grid in Australia; cattle guard in American English; and vehicle pass, Texas gate, or stock gap in the United States Southeast; or a cattle stop in New Zealand English – is a type of obstacle used to prevent livestock, such as sheep, cattle, pigs, horses, or mules from passing along a road or railway which penetrates the fencing surrounding an enclosed piece of land or border. It consists of a depression in the road covered by a transverse grid of bars or tubes, normally made of metal and firmly fixed to the ground on either side of the depression, such that the gaps between them are wide enough for an animal's legs to fall through, but sufficiently narrow not to impede a wheeled vehicle or human foot. This provides an effective barrier to animals without impeding wheeled vehicles, as the animals are reluctant to walk on the grates.
Usage examples of "cattle grid".
There was a white watchman pillar standing outside Wilhoim's odd cattle grid.
The EMC Ranger rattled over a cattle grid, and the grass magically reverted to a shaggy verdant green.
Flick drove down a rough track and crossed a cattle grid before pulling up in front of a large house.
Now, the only indications that once Scardale had deliberately cut itself off were the stone gateposts and the cattle grid that her wide-profile tyres bumped softly over.
The bike leapt the cattle grid at the gates, and then he was weaving down out of the village, passing the smell of gardens on either side of him that were tacked onto the slopes in their treacherous angle.
To move like the cheeks of a very fat person as their car goes over a cattle grid.