Akademik

a bridge over a ditch consisting of parallel metal bars that allow pedestrians and vehicles to pass, but not cattle

Britain : cattle guard

cattle grid, cattle guard (N American) or cattle stop (NZ) noun

A frame of spaced bars covering a trench or depression in a road where it passes through a fence, crossable by motor vehicles or pedestrians but not by hoofed animals

Main Entry: ↑cattle

cattle grid UK US noun [countable] [singular cattle grid plural cattle grids] british

a set of metal bars fixed over a hole in the ground that cows, sheep etc cannot cross. The American word is cattle guard .

Thesaurus: fences and boundaries_hyponym farm buildings and structures where animals are kept_hyponym

ˈcattle grid f8 [cattle grid cattle grids] (BrE) (NAmE ˈcattle guard) noun

metal bars that are placed over a hole that has been made in the road. Cars can pass over the metal bars but animals such as sheep and cows cannot.