cattle truck

British  

noun

1. US and Canadian equivalent: stock car.  a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock

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Example Sentences

He was sent to Poland in a cattle truck, where he worked in a coal mine, but worse was to come.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2023

In 1941 the family was deported, taken by cattle truck to a ghetto in Mogilev-Podolsk, Ukraine.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2019

A few days later, there was a cattle truck accident, some died and some were staggering around hurt, and I thought, “OK, I’m vegetarian.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2016

Five minutes later, surely, all those people smashed themselves shoulder-to-shoulder into the human equivalent of a cattle truck.

From Time • Dec. 5, 2014

He stood in the corral behind the cattle and waved his arms at them until one by one they hesitantly stepped into the back of the cattle truck.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko