Definition of Castrating

1. Verb. (present participle of castrate) ¹

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Definition of Castrating

1. castrate [v] - See also: castrate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Castrating

castoreums
castories
castorin
castors
castory
castral
castrametation
castrametations
castrater
castraters
castrates
castrati
castrating (current term)
castration cells
castrations
castratism
castrative
castrator
castrators
castratory
castratos
castratrices
castratrix

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 ..."

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