WordNet
n. a cargo ship for the transport of livestock [syn: cattleship]
Usage examples of "cattle boat".
She mentioned a couple of fishing boats that were usually present, and a cattle boat, and one or two others, but for this reason or that reason.
It was an antique case fitted with a modern mechanismtypical of the care that had gone into the design of the cattle boat.
Intelligence reports indicate that he has trained a force of seventy or so, and I'd venture that most of them are going to land from that cattle boat at the headland.
At the end of a long wooden pier, muffled lanterns winked with a narrow beam beside the squat shape of the cattle boat.
He told me if he had any trouble, he'd get a job on a cattle boat.
When I went out on that cattle boat, it took forever to find any fish at all.
This was off Morro Castle, the cattle boat streaming black smoke as it comes through the narrows.
She had come to America with eight hundred other refugees on a converted cattle boat, from Liverpool, after five years of hopeless wandering across the desolate face of Europe.