What is "cattleguard"

Usage examples of "cattleguard".

A real cattleguard, consisting of ten or fifteen steel rails or two-by-fours set six to eight inches apart and laid across a dug-out section of road, kept cows, afraid of plunging a hoof between the rails and maybe breaking a leg, from crossing.

Bernabe had mentioned his uneasiness about the painted cattleguard to Nick Rael.

They rattled over a cattleguard, and some charcoal bounced out of the bag and disappeared into the dust cloud behind them.

They drove across a broken cattleguard and down a lane overgrown with sagebrush before pulling to a stop in front of an abandoned wood-frame building.

Once Bernabe had mentioned his uneasiness about the painted cattleguard to Nick Rael.

The car tires thrummed over a cattleguard and Kyril Montana stepped on the gas.

Of course, ultimately, painted cattleguards were like Bernabe Montoya himself, pretending to be a sheriff, when actually the title Bumbling Misfit might have suited him better than did his badge.

Precisely these same sentiments were churning up the troubled mind of the sheriff as he guided his pickup onto the north-south highway, gave the finger to Ladd Devine's pompous Miracle Valley sign, flinched uncomfortably as his vehicle's tires whirred noiselessly over the painted cattleguard, and then gunned it down to Chamisaville.

One such ersatz cattleguard adorned the north-south highway a few hundred yards below Ladd De-vine's Miracle Valley development sign.

Or then again, Bernabe' figured a painted cattleguard might be said to share a common soul with a shapely woman who wore falsies.

Bernabe' rolled the concept of painted cattleguards around in his brain the way a lapidary rolls a rough stone around in a rock tumbler to make it smooth.

Well, on the night a bullet went through Joe Mondragon's window, Bernabe studied Joe's beanfield, and he studied the painted cattleguard, and he wondered about the relationship between them, but he never really got anywhere with either.

For some strange reason, Bernabe" had never been able to accept the fact that painted cattleguards actually worked.

And painted cattleguards had always worked just like a little piece of osh£ in the pocket had always kept away poisonous snakes.