cattle

«cattle» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: livestock; farm animals — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

livestock; farm animals

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Animals kept on a farm, such as cows, sheep, goats or camels, and sometimes wealth. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it mostly means cows and bulls. In these texts it means all farm animals, and it can stand for wealth.

examples

• And they brought their cattle unto Joseph. (Torah GEN.47.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• ‘Raleô, raleô, How the cattle go!’ (The Red Fairy Book) tree →
• And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. (Torah GEN.13.2, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

cattle

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 311 (Torah 87, tales 223, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 2; ratio 7.0 (Torah alone 40.6); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.
• And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
• And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle.
• And he said unto him: 'Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.
• Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cattle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.