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# bullock

«bullock» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **young bull; steer** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

young bull; steer

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A young male animal of the cattle family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bullock/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it usually means a castrated young bull. In these texts it means a young bull, as used for sacrifice.

### examples

- one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; (Torah NUM.7.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bullock/#x1)
- “We do not understand,” said the bullocks. (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bullock/#x2)
- And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, at the door of the tent of meeting. (Torah EXO.29.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bullock/#x3)

### primary record

bullock

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 108 (Torah 75, tales 33, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 12.2 (Torah alone 175.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.844/)
- [And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, at the door of the tent of meeting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.852/)
- [And the anointed priest shall take of the blood of the bullock, and bring it to the tent of meeting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.54/)
- [And the anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bullock to the tent of meeting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.65/)
- [one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.262/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bullock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bullock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.