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Definition of Cattle car
1. Noun. A freight car for transporting cattle.
Definition of Cattle car
1. Noun. A car, often a train car or semi-trailer, used to transport cattle. ¹
2. Noun. (slang) a paddy wagon, a van for transporting people who have been arrested. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cattle Car
Literary usage of Cattle car
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1881)
"Double-deck Cattle-car. Bob-tail Street-car. Double-deck Street-car. Box-car.
... Box Cattle-car. Drop-bottom Car. Cabin-car. Dump-car. Caboose-car. ..."
2. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1896)
"... suddenly back the train, causing the dead freight car to bump against the
cattle car which plaintiff was descending, and by means of such negligence in ..."
3. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1908)
"Stephen New went and caught hold of the lever on the cattle car to cut it loose from
... The front trucks of the cattle car rolled over me, broke my leg. ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"A carpenter at work under government contractors at an army camp site who knew
that a cattle car was the only accommodation furnished by a railroad to ..."
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