holding ground

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an enclosure where cattle are temporarily penned during a drive (def. 3a) or round up (def. 1).

See: drive ((n.))(def. 3a),round up (def. 1)

Quotations

1955

We strung the long, snaky, trail herd past two holding grounds this first day of the drive to take some of the snoose out of the ringy Batnuni bunch.

1962

Soon I reached the main holding ground where a dozen riders ringed a herd of several hundred cows and calves. . . .

1962

. . . we camped on Louie Lake, up the Pinantan road a mile from the holding pasture.