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cattle dock

cattle dock noun: a pen on a platform in a railway goods yard for cattle travelling by rail.

cattle dock: a pen on a platform in a railway goods yard for cattle travelling by rail
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Noun

cattle dock (plural cattle docks)

  1. (UK, dated) A pen on a platform in a railway goods yard for cattle travelling by rail.
    • The depot covers an area of 57 acres and consists of a shed 480ft by 207ft to handle both forwarded and received traffic, a combined office and amenities block, weighbridge and a cattle dock.1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Walsall sundries concentration depot”, in Modern Railways, page 367
    Synonyms:
    cattle pen

Synonyms of cattle dock

Forms of cattle dock

pluralcattle docks

Questions about cattle dock

What does cattle dock mean?
Cattle dock means a pen on a platform in a railway goods yard for cattle travelling by rail.
What part of speech is cattle dock?
Cattle dock is a noun.
What is the plural of cattle dock?
The plural of cattle dock is cattle docks.

Words near cattle dock in the dictionary

  1. cattle class
  2. Cattle Creek
  3. cattle creep
  4. cattle crush
  5. cattle crushes
  6. cattle dock
  7. cattle docks
  8. cattle dog
  9. cattle dogs
  10. cattle drive
  11. cattle driver

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