cattle run

noun

1. a barnyard or fenced area adjacent to a barn used as a limited grazing area or exercise lot for cattle.
2. a passageway used for cattle.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cattle run¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

Israel bars nearly all Palestinians from exiting through its lone crossing for travelers — a building faced with glass on its side of the border, but with steel doors and a caged enclosure on the Gaza side that give it the feel of a cattle run.

From Seattle Times

These two scenes—lunch crush at the vegan street food bar, the Melbourne– Chongqing cattle run—stand as diametrically opposed points on a circle delimiting our theme.

From Salon

Seeing a farm family look on as their life’s work is sold off piece by piece; the cattle run through a corral, parading for the highest bid; tools, household goods and toys piled as “boxes of junk” and sold for a few dollars while the kids hide in the haymow crying — auctions are still too painful for me.

From Washington Post

The aurochs that humans once painted on caves, for example, and later domesticated into modern cattle, is long since extinct—but feral cattle run wild from Hawaii to Hong Kong.

From National Geographic

Making cattle run at full speed can increase their risk for injury.

From National Geographic