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词汇 vealer
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Definition of vealer in English:

vealer

nounˈviːləˈvilər
Australian, NZ
  • A calf less than a year old which has been fattened for slaughter.

    vealers were sold at the time when the price received per kilogram was lowest
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Livestock records in Victoria continue to tumble, with a vealer selling for 239.2 cents a kilo at a trade sale in Pakenham yesterday.
    • She can't be sold as a vealer.
    • The table shows monthly statistics of stock slaughtered: cattle, vealers, calves, pigs, and sheep, July 1971-December 1974.
    • The average price for heavy vealers at the sale ranged from 195 to 220 cents a kilo.
    • A 450-kilo heavy vealer steer - more precisely a Limousin cross steer - sold for 251 cents a kilo, or $1,200 in total.
    • He would have been worth £50 as a vealer and £40 as a steer.
    • He called him every kind of careless hound, not fit to be in charge of a vealer.
    • I produced weaners, vealers, steers, fat cows, stud bulls, fine wool and prime lambs.
    • It has been developed as a vealer-fattening property.
    • You were driving too fast, hit a vealer and kept going.

Origin

1930s: from veal + -er1.

Definition of vealer in US English:

vealer

nounˈvēlərˈvilər
Australian, NZ
  • A calf less than a year old which has been fattened for slaughter.

    vealers were sold at the time when the price received per kilogram was lowest
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She can't be sold as a vealer.
    • He called him every kind of careless hound, not fit to be in charge of a vealer.
    • A 450-kilo heavy vealer steer - more precisely a Limousin cross steer - sold for 251 cents a kilo, or $1,200 in total.
    • He would have been worth £50 as a vealer and £40 as a steer.
    • The table shows monthly statistics of stock slaughtered: cattle, vealers, calves, pigs, and sheep, July 1971-December 1974.
    • The average price for heavy vealers at the sale ranged from 195 to 220 cents a kilo.
    • Livestock records in Victoria continue to tumble, with a vealer selling for 239.2 cents a kilo at a trade sale in Pakenham yesterday.
    • I produced weaners, vealers, steers, fat cows, stud bulls, fine wool and prime lambs.
    • You were driving too fast, hit a vealer and kept going.
    • It has been developed as a vealer-fattening property.

Origin

1930s: from veal + -er.

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