cattle truck

noun

a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock US and Canadian equivalentstock car

The cattle truck contained fifty-two persons—officers, privates, and civilians.

The bottom floor of a Belgian Cattle Truck generally measures 14 square metres, equal to 1675 square yards.

Thorndyke gazed absently at the blackened heap until an empty cattle-truck on the middle track hid it from view.

Rather than stay behind we would have made the journey in a cattle-truck, upon our head, or on our knees.

We were traveling in a closed cattle truck, and, as it was a hot night, our guards left the door open a foot or two.

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