Meanings
plural cattleheads
- Indiahead of cattle; a neat, a beef, a single bovine
The Local Government Engineering Bureau (LGEB) has built 2 killas as shelter for cattlehead.
1992, Raana Haider, A. Atiq Rahman, Saleemul Huq, editors, Cyclone '91 Revisited: A Follow-up Study, Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies, page 125 more examples
Even assuming that our 50-million Muslims eat up 50-million cattle-heads a year at the rate of one cattlehead per human head per year, we shall still have millions and millions of cattle living and multiplying with our food inside them.
1963, Mother India, volume 29, page 14, column 2The reasons for death were more or less similar to cattleheads. In the case of poultry, in all, 1312 died mainly due to Ranikhet. These deaths of livestock comprised 5, 9.6 and 19.5 percent respectively of the present stock of cattleheads, goat and poultry (Tables – 14 and 15).
1984, Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, Effects of Flood (1984) in Bangladesh: Survey of Nine Villages in Comilla, page 16The mobile veterinary unit had been providing health facilities to the ailing cattlehead in the whole of Thar.
1988, Pakistan Year Book, page 427As a result, most farming families now cannot keep more than a pair of cattlehead each, the bare minimum for operating a plough to till the land.
1995, Bara Parang: The Tale of the Developmental Refugees of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, →ISBN, page 65Whenever a cattlehead was killed by the tiger, the men sprayed these poisonous chemicals copiously on the carcass and even kept the semi-solid balls of this substance namely carbofuran, B.H.C. Gamma, Lindane, Lintaf and Hepta Chlore etc. inside the fleshy part of the animal.
1995, Rahul Shukla, Killing Grounds: The Saga of Encounters in Wild, Siddhi Books, page 114
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*haubudą“head”
- Old Englishhēafd-, hēafod“head; top; source; chief”
- Latincaput“head”
- Proto-Indo-European*kauput-“head”
- Englishcattlehead
From cattle + head. Interestingly, both are doublets from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (“head”), through Latin caput (“head”) and from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source; chief”), itself from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), respectively.
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