cattle plague

noun

, Veterinary Pathology.

1. rinderpest.

cattle plague

noun

1. See rinderpest
   another name for rinderpest

Word History and Origins

Origin of cattle plague¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

I do not say, of course, that bad water caused the cattle-plague.

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Do you remember—though you are hardly old enough—the cattle-plague?

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Question: Which is the most "beastly plague," a cattle-plague case for a farmer, or the ablative case for a school-boy?

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You scoundrel—you will give my apartment a bad name with your dirty cattle plague—will you!

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Yes, Virgil, as in duty bound to do, faced the Cattle Plague in all its horrors.

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