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Rinderpest   Listen
noun
Rinderpest  n.  A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.






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"Rinderpest" Quotes from Famous Books



... it might have been. And the bloke who died there was a big bug in England, Bough always thought. But he came tramping, and hauled up with hardly duds to his back or leather to his feet. Sick, too, and coughing like a sheep with the rinderpest. Bough was kind to him, but he got worse and worse. One night Bough was sitting up with him reading the Bible, when he made signs. 'Take this ring off of my finger and keep it,' says he. 'I've got nothing else to give you, but I reckon ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves



Words linked to "Rinderpest" :   cattle plague, animal disease



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