Meanings
plural cattle grids
- A grid of parallel metal bars set into a road as an obstacle to prevent hooved animals from passing.
At White Gill Head, just after crossing the cattle grid, bear left at the track junction.
2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 411 more example
Cattle grids flanking the roadway prevent animals from straying from the crossing on to the railway.
1953 February, “Experimental Lifting Barriers for Level Crossing”, in Railway Magazine, page 133Synonyms: cattle guard, Texas gate
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA grid of parallel metal bars set into a road as an obstacle to prevent hooved animals from passing.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna bridge over a ditch consisting of parallel metal bars that allow pedestrians and vehicles to pass, but not cattle
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan barrera canadenca
- barrera canadencagrid of parallel metal bars
Dutch wildrooster
- wildroostergrid of parallel metal bars
Finnish karjaritilä, karjaverkko
- karjaritilägrid of parallel metal bars
- karjaverkkogrid of parallel metal bars
German Viehgitter, Viehrost
- Viehgittergrid of parallel metal bars
- Viehrostgrid of parallel metal bars
- Weidegittergrid of parallel metal bars
- Weiderostgrid of parallel metal bars
- Wildgittergrid of parallel metal bars
- Wildrostgrid of parallel metal bars
Norwegian Bokmål ferist
- feristgrid of parallel metal bars
Portuguese mata-burro
- mata-burrogrid of parallel metal bars
Spanish mataburros, guardaganado
- mataburrosgrid of parallel metal bars
- guardaganadogrid of parallel metal bars
- paso canadiensegrid of parallel metal bars
Swedish färist
- färistgrid of parallel metal bars
Cite this entry
cattle grid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cattle%20grid
“cattle grid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cattle%20grid. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cattle grid,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cattle%20grid.
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