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holding ground West 
an enclosure where cattle are temporarily penned during a drive (def. 3a) or round up (def. 1).
See also: drive ((n.)) (def. 3a) round up (def. 1)
- 1955 We strung the long, snaky, trail herd past two holding grounds this first day of the drive to take some of the snoose out of the ringy Batnuni bunch.
- 1962 . . . we camped on Louie Lake, up the Pinantan road a mile from the holding pasture.
- 1962 Soon I reached the main holding ground where a dozen riders ringed a herd of several hundred cows and calves. . . .
- 1955 We strung the long, snaky, trail herd past two holding grounds this first day of the drive to take some of the snoose out of the ringy Batnuni bunch.