BULLOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bullock mean? 

• BULLOCK (noun)
  The noun BULLOCK has 2 senses:

1. young bull

2. castrated bull

  Familiarity information: BULLOCK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULLOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Young bull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bullock" is a kind of...):

young mammal (any immature mammal)

bull (uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle)

Derivation:

bullocky (resembling a bullock in strength and power)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Castrated bull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bullock; steer

Hypernyms ("bullock" is a kind of...):

male (an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova))

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age)

 Context examples 

It was market day at Redhill, and the road was crowded with carts of produce, droves of bullocks, and farmers’ gigs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Never a bullock on the farm was sold more lightly.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Shall I ever recall that street of Canterbury on a market-day, without recalling him, as he walked back with us; expressing, in the hardy roving manner he assumed, the unsettled habits of a temporary sojourner in the land; and looking at the bullocks, as they came by, with the eye of an Australian farmer!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)