cattle guard

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

   Synonymscattle grid

   Broaderbridge

Questions about cattle guard

What does cattle guard mean?

cattle guard means "a bridge over a ditch consisting of parallel metal bars that allow pedestrians and vehicles to pass, but not cattle".

What is another word for cattle guard?

Close synonyms include cattle grid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cattle guard a common word?

cattle guard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.