Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A train of cars carrying cattle; a cattle-train.
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Examples
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What with the bad time our train made, an 'the good time the stock-train made, an' the fact that they started ahead of us, they're in the yards now.
The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J. C. Stead 1919
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"A stock-train from Sedalia was receiving a squealing and bellowing freight."
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A stock-train from Sedalia was receiving a squealing and bellowing freight as we reached the yards, leading from which to the car door ran an inclined plane.
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"A stock-train from Sedalia was receiving a squealing and bellowing freight" ... ..
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"'May be I am,' said I, 'but I would 'a swore some one came and called under my window that I got out at 2: 10, on a stock-train, extra.'
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