A metal grid covering a ditch, allowing vehicles and pedestrians to pass over but not cattle and other animals.
〈英〉挡畜沟栅（铺于沟渠之上的金属网格板，车辆及行人可通过，牛等动物则不能）
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The new cattle grids have been installed on the Waylands path but disabled people are experiencing difficulties with the gates.
She still has a nervous feeling every time she crosses a cattle grid, because it reminds her of the cattle grid at the entrance to White Lodge.
Peter Barfoot, head of advisory services at the park authority, says money is the main obstacle to installing more cattle grids.
After a kissing gate by a cattle grid, the track rises up towards Buchan.
The national park authority has installed temporary cattle grids in the Esk Valley which, together with fencing and permanent grids near Castleton, will create sheep-free areas for visitors.
The first cattle grids in the West Riding were installed on the moors above Carleton, attended by a large delegation of surveyors and farmers keen to see how they worked.
This cattle guard is inexpensive and can be moved easily.
Applecross is in a National Park and there is only one road into the village, with cattle grids a shade too narrow for the mobile home to pass over.
You would drive over a number of cattle grids, would you not?
Thankfully, none of them were injured, despite the fact that several of them had crossed cattle guards and been very close to numerous barbed wire fences.
Roads design has provided a design proposal for upgrading of the county road and the design of cattle grids in response to some of the other submissions.
Baildon gardeners should take heart from news that a cattle grid and fence may be erected to stop animals from Baildon Moor straying on to their land.
They were actually hemmed in by cattle grids at each end of the village, he pointed out - and there were disinfectant mats at each entrance to prevent the spread of infection.
You need a car for all those adventures because public transport ends where the cattle guards begin.
Colin Green, environmental adviser at Severn Trent Water, said he had the idea for the ladder after seeing how special ladders helped trapped hedgehogs escape after falling down a cattle grid.
Mrs Wheeler said: ‘One of the sheep was so frightened it jumped out of the field, across a cattle grid, across a busy road and into someone's garden.’
The temporary cattle grids, which are a barrier to sheep but not traffic, will be removed when the threat of foot-and-mouth has passed.
Pass through a latch gate by a lodge and then over the cattle grid to follow the access track down to the ticket booth near the main driveway entrance to the estate.
Follow the path back to the road above the cattle grid.
As I drove up to the entrance through cattle guards I obeyed the speed limit and started to look around.