dead stock
noun
farm equipment: Compare livestock
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How to use dead stock in a sentence
We pass daily great numbers of dead stock at the camping grounds, in the sloughs, and in the river.
Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 | E. S. (Eleazer Stillman) IngallsThe most of the dead stock heretofore has been oxen, but it seems now that oxen stand this part of the trip the best.
Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 | E. S. (Eleazer Stillman) IngallsThe road for a few days past has been strewed with dead stock.
Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 | E. S. (Eleazer Stillman) IngallsA few miles from where we camped had a bad deep creek to cross, where we found plenty of dead stock.
Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 | E. S. (Eleazer Stillman) IngallsHe took one look at the novice and unloaded on him something less than a hundredweight of dead stock.
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