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HEAD OF CATTLE

Specialty Definition: HEAD OF CATTLE

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Literature

Head of Cattle Cattle are counted by the head; manufacturing labourers by hands, as "How many hands do you employ?" horses by the nose (See Nose); guests at dinner by the cover, as "Covers for ten," etc. (See Numbers, Hand.)
In contracting for meals the contractor takes the job at so much "a head" - i.e. for each person. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: HEAD OF CATTLE

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Economic History

Chad

Conservative estimates from CEBVIRHA - UDEAC (Communaute Economique du Betail, de la Viande et des Ressources Halieutique) have placed the herd size as follows: 6.3 million head of cattle, 6.6 million sheep and goats, 1,000,000 camels, 20,000 pigs, 200,000 horses, 300,000 mules. (references)

Travel

Botswana

Batswana like to talk about their special attachment to their "cattle post" (although it is considered rude to ask how many head of cattle one owns). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HEAD OF CATTLE

Language Translations for "HEAD OF CATTLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

dobytèe. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stuk vee, bruut (brute, harsh), beest (animal, beast, brute, wild animal). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

bruto. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

ferføttur fenaður. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

nauta (cattle). (various references)

   

French

  

tête de bétail. (various references)

   

German

  

Vieh (beast, brute, cattle, cattles, livestock, swine). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hat szarvasmarha (six head of cattle), hat darab szarvasmarha (six head of cattle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadhay ofay attlecay

   

Zulu

  

inkomo (animal, beast). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HEAD OF CATTLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-f-h-l-o-t-t"

-3 letters: defalcate.

-4 letters: acetated, attached, cathodal, chelated, facetted, falcated, flathead, fletched, lactated, leachate.

-5 letters: acetate, athlete, attache, calotte, cathead, cathode, cattalo, chaetae, chaetal, chatted, chattel, cheated, chelate, cholate, cleated, clefted, clothed, clotted, dealate, deflate, deflect, faceted, falcate, fathead, feedlot, fetched, fettled, flatted, floated, lactate, latched, latchet, leached, letched, loathed, located, tetched, thecate, totaled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HEAD OF CATTLE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 45 41 44      4F 46      43 41 54 54 4C 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01000011 01000001 01010100 01010100 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#67 &#65 &#84 &#84 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 0044      004F 0046      0043 0041 0054 0054 004C 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42393538249402373554544639

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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