cattle grid

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Noun

cattle grid - a bridge over a ditch consisting of parallel metal bars that allow pedestrians and vehicles to pass, but not cattle

cattle guard

bridge, span - a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

Translations

barrière canadiennepassage canadien

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He believes that Lili must have vaulted over a cattle grid.

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Continue past the barns and where the track curves to the right, go over the cattle grid on the far left and follow the path across the field.

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The group had chained themselves to excavators and a cattle grid on the site preventing work being carried out for several hours.

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And elsewhere, cyclist Julian has fallen off his bike in the remote Pennine Hills and been thrown into a cattle grid.

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But how will they cross the terrifying cattle grid that lays ahead?

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While negotiating the track, the front of the vehicle slipped off a cattle grid crossing a stream, and sank into mud, leaving it stuck.

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Follow it up the hill, cross the main road and continue over the cattle grid up the lane and back to the starting point.

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Ryan Quinn, 14, had got his hand lodged in a cattle grid in Portrush, Co Antrim, in January 2009.

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The tree-lined gravelled drive, approached over a cattle grid, sweeps between indigenous woodland and post and rail paddocks towards an electrically operated gate.

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It's like driving over an extended cattle grid only worse.

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Even then, unlike RenAe, I still reckon I wouldn't look like I could fall down a cattle grid