English Dictionary

chouse

IPA（発音記号）

/t͡ʃaʊ̯s/

動詞

アメリカ英語 前置詞句 地域限定 他動詞

(US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring. / (US, regional) To handle, to take care of. / (transitive, US, regional) To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running.

日本語の意味

家畜を追い立てたり、怖がらせたりして乱暴に扱う / 家畜の世話をするが、その扱いが粗野・乱暴である / 家畜に不適切な行動（走るなど）を引き起こすような扱いをする

The cowboys had to chouse the fractious herd toward the loading chute before the storm hit.

嵐が来る前に、カウボーイたちは手に負えない牛の群れを乱暴に追い立てて積み込み用の通路へ向かわせなければならなかった。

意味（1）

(US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.

意味（2）

(US, regional) To handle, to take care of.

This gave the roundup the appearance of a cavalry charge, and a stranger observing the procedure for the first time might have thought we were a bunch of green, possibly drunken cowboys making sport out of chousing cattle. But we weren't chousing them, we were just trying to keep them in sight, and for a very good reason.

意味（3）

(transitive, US, regional) To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running.

[…] but the fact remains that my range cattle, because of the chousing which they received at the hands of the troops and the fright that they had, were caused to go into a period of considerable range deficiency without the flesh with which they should have entered this period.

chouses （ present singular third-person ）

chousing （ participle present ）

choused （ participle past ）

choused （ past ）