cattle truck

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cattle truck

n
(Railways) a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock. US and Canadian equivalent: stock car
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cattle truck

ncarro m bestiame inv
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He was captured at the First Battle of Ypres in October, 1914, and with others sent to Germany in a cattle truck.
The scene on the bus resembled a cattle truck! I felt so sorry for the lady driver.
* A large cattle truck got pinned under a low concrete bridge, and soon a crowd gathered to study the situation and give suggestions.
Last year, scores of Landys and their owners turned up in the picturesque setting and were treated to a feast of classic cars, art, DJs and live music, stalls selling Barbour and North Face clothing, merchandise, autojumble, fanastic street food and even a barber cutting from a cattle truck.
A CATTLE truck with 18 animals inside it was knocked on its side in a crash caused by a newly-qualified driver who made "the worst mistake of my life".
He quoted a bill of ` 15,000- ` 20,000 for promising protection to each cattle truck passing through the state.
THE A46 out of Coventry was closed on Saturday after a cattle truck jackknifed and animals escaped onto the carriageway.
WALTERVILLE - The cattle truck driver who crashed on Highway 126 on Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of more than a dozen cows, was speeding when he failed to negotiate a curve, authorities said Wednesday.
They managed to get as far as the Russian zone in eastern Poland but were sent to Siberia in cattle truck trains as suspected enemy aliens.
She would later give birth to her daughter Eva on a cattle truck covered in lice at another pitiless camp where inmates slowly starved.
Amy Anderson-Rasmussen, owner, Blue Cattle Truck Trading Co., showed off her company's Mexican Vanilla line.
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