cattle run

a barnyard or fenced area adjacent to a barn used as a limited grazing area or exercise lot for cattle.

a passageway used for cattle.

Origin of cattle run

First recorded in 1850–55

The one holds his lands for a cattle-run or a farm, the other employs his in feeding kangaroos or in growing wild roots.

Australia, its history and present condition |William Pridden
Where the cattle-run remains it is mapped out as a "reserve" for a certain townland, and is greatly prized by the peasants.

Disturbed Ireland |Bernard H. Becker
The name of "Ocho Rios" had been given to the station by the man who had first taken up the block of country for a cattle-run.

Tom Gerrard |Louis Becke
Rifles cracked to right and left of him, like stock-whips in a cattle-run.

On the Heels of De Wet |The Intelligence Officer

Dinky-Dunk is fencing in some of the range, for a sort of cattle-run for our two milk-cows.

The Prairie Wife |Arthur Stringer