0 a set of bars, placed over a hole in the road, that allows vehicles to cross, but not animals such as cows and sheep:
Follow the road for about 14 miles to a cattle guard, then take the first dirt road right.
Not far from the town of Bedias, they crossed a cattle guard onto a ranch owned by friends of Mr. Watson.
He rode with me on a back-country route across ranches to Johnson City, bouncing over cattle guards and watching dust rise.
