shorthorned

Mr Geddes stood at the top of the Highland Society's prize-list at the Inverness show as the owner of the best aged shorthorned bull, and was a winner along with Mr John M'Kessock in the class of shorthorned heifers.

Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

Mr. Law is, of course, as a good Scotch bailiff should be, greatly distressed at the state of his cow-houses, feeding-stalls, and stockyard, now ankle-deep in "muck"; but the fine shorthorned bull seems none the worse, and the pigs have taken kindly to the new and disorderly condition of affairs.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

Ah, yes, the shorthorned grasshoppers are the real locusts, and this fellow has somehow got the name.

The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890

He says we know the shorthorned grasshoppers, or locusts, the longhorned, or meadow, grasshoppers, and the crickets.

The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890

The right name for the shorthorned grasshoppers is locusts.

The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890

It is the locusts, or shorthorned grasshoppers, that sometimes come in swarms that darken the sun.

The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890

We call another insect a locust, but the shorthorned grasshoppers are the true locusts.

The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890

They have no horns, of course, but some have short antennæ that stick out like little horns, and those we call shorthorned.

The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890

Otherwise, the longhorned, or meadow grasshoppers are very much like the locusts, or shorthorned grasshoppers.

The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890

“There’s that shorthorned Sally,” she said, as they entered the Home Close, and she caught sight of the meek beast that lay chewing the cud and looking at her with a sleepy eye.

Adam Bede 2004