shorthorn

IPA: ʃˈɔrthɝn

One of a breed of cattle, originating in England, with distinctively short horns (in contrast to longhorn cattle).

Examples of "shorthorn" in Sentences

"shorthorn," with two tail-planes and a low nacelle.
a beautiful beast, a thorough-bred "shorthorn," and she weighed about thirteen hundredweight.
This finally developed into the carefully streamlined "shorthorn" with the raised nacelle and a single tail-plane.
But they were many, and we fled before them with our shorthorn cattle, our goats, and our barleyseed, our women and children.
With Scott on hand to turn back the cattle, Ridge made short work of separating the shorthorn cow and maneuvering her into the smaller pen.
There was a woman -- on the great drift down out of Europe, a weary drift of many generations, when we brought into India the shorthorn cattle and the planting of barley.
The 1913 type had two rectangular tail-planes and better seating arrangements, known affectionately as the "mechanical cow"; the same year came the first "shorthorn," with two tail-planes and a low nacelle.
In the rush of his retreat down the canyon slope, he had plunged into a bunch of shorthorn steers, who, far more startled than he, had rolled him on the forest floor, trampled over him in their panic, and smashed his rifle under their hoofs.