showering

showering
The practice of sprinkling and cooling livestock with a spray of water when they are shipped in freight cars. This is usually done by holding a pipe from an elevated tank, with one end of the pipe flattened, so that the water is thrown through the openings in the cars as they slowly pass. Peck v Chicago Great Western Railway Co. 138 Iowa 187, 115 NW 1113.

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