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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



... jogging on at their (or rather the bullocks') leisure; and he turned with them, in company, until they reached the crossing-place of the Wombi. The appearance of this spot did not, by any means, favourably prepossess the minds of the bullock-drivers: the banks were of black alluvial soil, and had a steep descent to the water; which, though reduced to its ordinary level, looked black from the colour of the banks and the soil through which it passed; and had an appearance of ...
— Fern Vale (Volume 1) - or the Queensland Squatter • Colin Munro
... street she heard a fearful clatter. It was her counselor tearing back to his interrupted novel like a distracted bullock. ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade
... was so exasperated at one of these natives, who had agreed to let the crew have a small bullock, but, upon finding there was no money to pay for it, had driven it away, that he thought it almost justifiable to desire his men to help themselves. There was, however, one bright exception to this universal hard-heartedness. A sergeant, named Antonio das Santos, who commanded ...
— Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 • William O. S. Gilly
... the Indians rested; then prepared their fires, and feasted on the head, feet, and offal of a bullock which ...
— The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate • Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
... had taken the Sombari road on his motor cycle and Tommy had taken the main road in an opposite direction. It was more than possible that the car had broken down somewhere, in which case the stranded ones would probably find a bullock-cart to bring them ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi


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