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Dehorn   Listen
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Dehorn  v. t.  (past & past part. dehorned; pres. part. dehorning)  To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle."






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"Dehorn" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Four of those cows ought to make fine milkers," he said; "they are built for it,—long bodies, big bags, milk veins that stand out like crooked welts, light shoulders, slender necks, and lean heads. They are young, too; and if you'll dehorn them, I believe they'll make your thoroughbreds hump themselves to keep up with them at the milk pail. You see, these cows never had more than half a chance to show what they could do. They have never been 'fed for milk.' Farmers don't do that much. They think that if a cow doesn't ...
— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter



Words linked to "Dehorn" :   disbud, take, withdraw, take off



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