A rope for tying up cattle. Also attributive saleband n. Obsolete

A rope for tying up cattle. Also attributive saleband n. Obsolete

A chain, rope, twisted band of straw or the like, used for securing cows. Now dialect.

(a piece of) chalk or similar stone used for marking cattle, etc.

A small bell; esp. one hung around the neck of a cow or sheep; a cowbell; a sheep bell.

A piece of curved wood used in fastening cows to the stake; in some places (according to Jamieson) the stake itself.

a hook for leading an ox by a nose-ring.

A strong and heavy whip made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide, used in South Africa for driving cattle and sometimes for administering chastisement.

A shackle; plural handcuffs.

A bell hung round a cow's neck, to tinkle when the animal moves. (Esp. in Switzerland.)

a frame for holding oxen while they are being shod.

A whip with a short handle and a long heavy lash (typically one made of plaited rawhide), originally used to control cattle or other livestock.

(See quot.)

a whip for driving cattle; also as v. transitive, to beat with a stock-whip.

(a) a bullock driver in the Western states; (b) = bull-whack n.

a bell borne by the leader of a herd of cattle.

(see quot.).

†(a) a staff borne by a commanding officer, a truncheon; (b) a staff to lead a bull by means of a ring through its nose.

(see quot. 1940).