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cattle boat

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Noun1.cattle boat - a cargo ship for the transport of livestock
cargo ship, cargo vessel - a ship designed to carry cargo


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If my grandparents hadn't washed up on Anderston Quay, right where the Record building is, in their bare feet on a cattle boat from Ireland, none of my family - hardly a day of work lost in nearly a century - would have been able to contribute what we have to life in this country.
The cheap travellers' friend, Micheal O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, is thinking of ever more wizard wheezes to make his Irish Airbuses resemble a flying version of conditions on old Irish cattle boats.
Now, my great-great-grandfather did not starve in Ireland, nor did his son immigrate to the United States on a cattle boat, so that I could watch any part of my federal tax payment morph into a tithe for James Dobson, Pat Robertson or Sun Myung Moon.
 
 
 
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