cattle grid

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cattle grid

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Noun

cattle grid (plural cattle grids)

1. A grid of parallel metal bars set into a road as an obstacle to prevent hooved animals from passing.
   • 1953 February, “Experimental Lifting Barriers for Level Crossing”, in Railway Magazine, page 133:

     Cattle grids flanking the roadway prevent animals from straying from the crossing on to the railway.

   • 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 41:

     At White Gill Head, just after crossing the cattle grid, bear left at the track junction.

Synonyms

• cattle guard (US)
• Texas gate (North America, regional)

Translations

grid of parallel metal bars

Catalan: barrera canadenca f Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: wildrooster (nl) Finnish: karjaritilä, karjaverkko German: Viehgitter n, Viehrost m, Weidegitter n, Weiderost m, Wildgitter n, Wildrost m Norwegian: Bokmål: ferist c Nynorsk: ferist f Portuguese: mata-burro m Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: mataburros (es) m Swedish: färist (sv) c