The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rinderpest \Rin"der*pest\ (r[i^]n"d[~e]r*p[e^]st), n. [G., fr. rind, pl. rinder, cattle + pest pest, plague.] A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.
Wiktionary
n. rinderpest
WordNet
n. an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes [syn: rinderpest]
Usage examples of "cattle plague".
Mad Bear's warriors can easily cope with Laredo's cavalry, but what they can't cope with is a cattle plague.
Mad Bears warriors can easily cope with Laredos cavalry, but what they cant cope with is a cattle plague.
But because lung took longer to cook, required a larger cooking pot, and when you come right down to it doesn't yield much meat, it almost never went into the enamel pot, in actual fact only during the occasional summer meat shortages brought on by the cattle plague that sometimes came to Kashubia as well as Koshnavia.