rearer


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rear 1

 (rîr)
n.
1. A hind part.
2. The point or area farthest from the front: the rear of the hall.
3. The part of a military deployment usually farthest from the fighting front.
4. Informal The buttocks.
adj.
Of, at, or located in the rear.
[Middle English rere, rear of an army, short for rerewarde, rear guard; see rearward2.]

rear 2

 (rîr)
v. reared, rear·ing, rears
v.tr.
1. To care for (children or a child) during the early stages of life; bring up. See Usage Note at raise.
2. To tend (growing plants or animals).
3. To build; erect.
4. Archaic To lift upright; raise.
v.intr.
1. To rise on the hind legs, as a horse.
2. To rise high in the air; tower.
[Middle English reren, to raise, from Old English rǣran; see er- in Indo-European roots.]
rear′er n.
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* Proletariat: Derived originally from the Latin PROLETARII, the name given in the census of Servius Tullius to those who were of value to the state only as the rearers of offspring (PROLES); in other words, they were of no importance either for wealth, or position, or exceptional ability.
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The following day, a cattle rearer in the Bundase bush saw the decomposing charred bodies of the three judges, and as God would have it, officer cadets from the Ghana Military Academy were on routine training at the Bundase area, so this innocent cattle rearer went to whisper his strange discovery to the officer leading the team.
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These include a tractor man/ in-calf rearer, apprentice herdsman and two other general farm workers.
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The pair first calved at two-yearsold and were reared on farm-produced milk and Super Calf Rearer. Although they will turn 15 on November 22, both are still working hard: 77 is due her 11th calving on January 9, while 118 is in line for 12th lactation from December 18.
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The price difference will kill us," a South African pullet rearer, Herman Pretorius, told Reuters.
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From starting work at 17 as a barn boy at Crichton Royal Dairy, he became an awardwinning calf and young stock rearer in the farming industry.
Award for long-serving member of the team
AN ANIMAL rehoming centre's first resident puppy rearer is celebrating two decades of service this month.
Bethan has helped to look after 800 puppies in 20 years
The reason for that is that many are born on dairy farms who are nearly 100% members of the dairy Red Tractor scheme, but then move to a rearer who grows them on and is currently not farm assured.
Plans to make RedTractor assurance more robust; As the changes to the Red Tractor scheme come under the spotlight, incoming Northumberland NFU chairman HANS PORKSEN reports from a meeting to discuss the future of the scheme
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BETH Powell from Montgomery was named the rearer of the Reserve Supreme Champion at the Wales YFC NatWest Calf Rearing competition.
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There's the rhino-sized chicken rearer Boggis; the rude, dwarf-like duck and goose man Bunce and lean, mean mister Bean (turkey and cider).
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