cattle guard
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]cattle guard (plural cattle guards)
- (US) Synonym of cattle grid
- 1941 May, Voyageur, “The Clogher Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 194:
- The Clogher Valley was probably the first line to introduce the cattle guards now so commonly used in light railway construction; where the line leaves or rejoins the roads, a pit about 5 ft. long is sunk between the rails, covered by a grid; this form of protection is arranged on each side of the road, and cattle are afraid to cross the device, [...].
- 1944 January and February, “Light Railways in Derbyshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 25:
- The level crossings at Stretton and at the point where the A.L.R. crosses the main road south of Stretton are provided with gates; other crossings are unprotected, save for cattle-guards.
Alternative forms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Structure on the ground to dissuade cattle from crossing — see cattle grid
References
[edit]- “cattle guard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.