Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a cargo ship for the transport of livestock.
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- noun a cargo ship for the transport of livestock
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Examples
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It was in this quarter, for a brief sweet time, that Love and Beauty made their strange home, as though a pair of halcyons should choose to nest in the masthead of a cattleship.
Prose Fancies (Second Series) Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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The stables were crowded with bunks and men -- like a cattleship forecastle.
Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905
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"You cotton-headed Scandinavian cattleship ballast, catch that ball in your arms when I throw it to you, and don't let go of it!" shrieked
At Good Old Siwash George Fitch 1896
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