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cattle dock en · NOUN
Meanings
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(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:
Forms
Relateds
cattle wagon
Synonyms
cattle pen