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cattle docks

cattle docks is the plural of cattle dock.

Meaning of cattle dock

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

Questions about cattle docks

What is cattle docks the plural of?
Cattle docks is the plural of cattle dock.

Words near cattle docks in the dictionary

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

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