cattle plague

noun Veterinary Pathology.

Words nearby cattle plague

cattle dog, cattle egret, cattle grub, cattle guard, cattle market, cattle plague, cattle prod, cattle run, cattle show, cattle tick, cattle truck

Origin of cattle plague

First recorded in 1865–70

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Doubt equally those who pretend to see in cholera, cattle-plague, and bad harvests, evidences of Divine anger.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2|John Tyndall
The time was autumn, and it chanced that a cattle-plague was raging in the neighbourhood, which inflicted much loss on the people.
Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.|Sir James George Frazer
The outbreak of cattle-plague in Germany restricted the importation of live beasts to those purchased in Holland and Belgium.
The Franco-German War of 1870-71|Count Helmuth, von Moltke
In the evening we received a visit from eight Tibetans, two of whom had lost all their yaks by a kind of cattle-plague.
Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 1 (of 2)|Sven Hedin

A horse was never inflicted with smallpox, nor a man with the cattle-plague, nor do sheep suffer from the potato-rot.
A Winter Amid the Ice|Jules Verne

British Dictionary definitions for cattle plague

cattle plague

noun

another name for rinderpest

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cattle plague

noun Veterinary Pathology.

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Origin of cattle plague

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British Dictionary definitions for cattle plague

noun