Definitions for cattle-guard

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Cattle-Guard is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 702 anagrams from letters in cattle-guard (-aacdeglrttu).

Definitions for cattle-guard

noun

  1. a structure consisting typically of parallel bars over a shallow ditch, used to prevent cattle from straying.

Origin of cattle-guard

First recorded in 1835-45

Examples for cattle-guard

In the vicinity of the cattle guard the soil was disarranged and there were shoe marks near the cattle guard.

There was a cattle guard ahead to afford some protection from the storm churning along the river.

It rattled across the cattle guard and through the new-unprotected and open gate in the barbed wire fence.

I was now enabled to reduce the cattle guard from four to two men, which was a great relief to them.

In the cattle guard was the sole of a shoe, evidently torn off as one of the fleeing men escaped his assailants.

Midway between the platform and the cattle guard they saw the Duke lean in his saddle and snatch the white favor from her hand.

Word Value for cattle-guard
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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