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Bullock   /bˈʊlək/   Listen
noun
Bullock  n.  
1.
A young bull, or any male of the ox kind. "Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old."
2.
An ox, steer, or stag.


verb
Bullock  v. t.  To bully. (Obs.) "She shan't think to bullock and domineer over me."





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"Bullock" Quotes from Famous Books



... the party. New Year's range. A thunderstorm. Three natives remind us of the man wounded. Another man of the party taken ill. Acacia pendula. Beauty of the scenery. Mr. Larmer traces Duck Creek up to the Macquarie. A hot wind. Talambe of the Bogan Tribe. Tombs of Milmeridien. Another bullock fails. Natives troublesome. Successful chase of four kangaroos. Natives of the Bogan come up. Water scarce. Two red-painted natives. Uncertainty of Mr. Cunningham's fate. Mr. Larmer overtakes the party. Result of his survey. Send off a courier to Sydney. Marks of Mr. ...
— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell
... 620 He said, and brandishing his massy spear Dismiss'd it at Aretus; full he smote His ample shield, nor stay'd the pointed brass, But penetrating sheer the disk, his belt Pierced also, and stood planted in his waist. 625 As when some vigorous youth with sharpen'd axe A pastured bullock smites behind the horns And hews the muscle through; he, at the stroke Springs forth and falls, so sprang Aretus forth, Then fell supine, and in his bowels stood 630 The keen-edged lance still quivering till he died. ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... belong to three owners?" "They are reckoned as one, and on their account they may legally plough the whole fifty cubits square around them." "And how much space must be between them?" Rabban Simon, the son of Gamaliel, said, "that a bullock with ...
— Hebrew Literature
... he'll turn up on that bullock cart, too. He seems omnipresent!" laughed the captain, as they whirled by. "When are they ...
— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... slyppe, lip, and cow-wheat is so nicknamed from its seed resembling wheat, but being worthless as food for man. The flowers of the Arum maculatum are "bulls and cows;" and in Yorkshire the fruit of Crataegus oxyacantha is bull-horns;—an old name for the horse-leek being bullock's-eye. ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer


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