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Definition of Castrating
1. castrate [v] - See also: castrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Castrating
Literary usage of Castrating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor: Containing ... Information for by George H. Dadd (1851)
"Castrating LAMBS. THE lambs are first driven into a small enclosure. Select the
ewe from the ram lambs, and let the former go. Two assistants are necessary. ..."
2. The Diseases of Animals: A Book of Brief and Popular Advice on the Care and by Nelson Slater Mayo (1913)
"Castrating Castration consists iu the removal or destruction of the essential
organs of generation. In the male these organs are the testicles; ..."
3. The Diseases of Animals: A Book of Brief and Popular Advice on the Care and by Nelson Slater Mayo (1920)
"Castrating Castration consists in the removal or destruction of the essential
organs of generation. In the male these organs are the testicles; ..."
4. Sheep-farming in North America by John Alexander Craig, H. P. Miller (1918)
"Docking and castrating. — As these lambs are slaughtered at so young an age, they
are never docked nor is it necessary to castrate them. ..."
5. Domestic Animals: History and Description of the Horse, Mule, Cattle, Sheep by Richard Lamb Allen (1848)
"After selecting enough of the choicest rams for stock-getters, the castrating
may be performed at any time between two and six weeks old, when the lamb is ..."
6. Treatise on the Breeding and Management of Live Stock: In which the by Richard Parkinson (1810)
"When I lived with my father, there happened, as we thought, a very unfavourable
time for the castrating of lambs, it being cold and ..."