cattle boat


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Noun1.cattle boat - a cargo ship for the transport of livestock
cattleship
cargo ship, cargo vessel - a ship designed to carry cargo
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Here they would have taken the cattle boat to Liverpool, paying 3d (just over 1p) for a rough passage on deck.
Irish were driven out of their land by poverty; Carl continues his look at the origins of the Irish community in Birmingham
This is no cattle boat now, but a luxury high-speed liner.
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The pair caught the last cattle boat out of Jersey, Molly wearing six dresses and two coats and carrying just a small suitcase.
Molly was such a remarkable woman - We'll all miss her... Friends honour 101-year-old
He worked his way across the Atlantic on a Canadian cattle boat, but like most American pilgrims, he went broke fast once he got there.
The Long Night: William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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.
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During Nichols' last summer of college, he and a friend worked their way to Europe aboard a cattle boat and traveled the continent, earning money as they went.
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Earl Birney, later our Poet Laureate, and other artists and writers took the classic cattle boat work for transport to the centres of art in Europe--existing, somehow, with many like themselves.
A flutter of wings
Returning to England on a cattle boat, he settled in London and took up Unitarianism, and made plans to enter the Unitarian seminaryat Oxford.
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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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