On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:59:17 -0700, Dan Marotta wrote:

When I was growing up we called that thing a "cow catcher".

So did we in NZ.

The use of 'fender' for a cow-catcher as something I found in a
dictionary. I also knew of 'fender' as a nautical term for both the rope
mat thing used between two ships of ship and wharf and for horizontal
chunks of wood mounted on piers and wharfs.


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