Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A castrated bull; a steer.
- noun A young bull.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A perversion of bully.
- noun Literally, a young or small bull, but generally used of an ox or castrated bull; a full-grown steer.
- noun [In derisive allusion to bull.] A papal bull or brief.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.
- noun An ox, steer, or stag.
- transitive verb obsolete To bully.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
young bull . - noun A
castrated bull ; anox . - verb obsolete To
bully .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun young bull
- noun castrated bull
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Then he called a bullock out of a pasture and petted it and talked with it, and said:
The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance by Mark Twain [pseud.] with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. 1916
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I'm going down to the little paddock for a lesson in bullock driving from Burton.
Mates at Billabong 1911
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A second peon with his lasso gallops after the bullock, and throws his lasso round the hind leg above the hough and rides in a contrary direction to the other horseman, consequently the bullock is stretched between the two horses.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903
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The bullock is a strange, modest-looking little animal with a hump on its back and crooked horns on its head.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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A bullock is slaughtered every day for the use of the troops, the officers and high officials being first served; but the animals are small, and the flesh is not like the juicy beef-steaks of English meat.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887
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The high priest having done this, perfumed the sanctuary, returned to the door, took the blood of the slain bullock, and, carrying it into the holy of holies, sprinkled it with his finger once upon the mercy seat "eastward" -- that is, on the side next to himself; and seven times "before the mercy seat" -- that is, on the front of the ark.
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Then he called a bullock out of a pasture and petted it and talked with it, and said:
The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain 1872
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The monk explained to the interviewer his belief that the bullock was a reincarnated soul and expressed the forlorn hope that Shambo might have been a veterinary surgeon in a previous life, in which case I suppose they think he got his just deserts.
Previous lives 2007
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While the bullock is a constant danger, the show descends into comedy when two dwarf “picadors” enter the ring.
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The thawing wind, a bullock, which is no ploughing bullock — a furious bullock, a destroyer, which with angry horns breaketh the ice!
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