cattle plague

noun

, Veterinary Pathology.

cattle plague

First recorded in 1865–70

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

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

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

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

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

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