| 词汇 | cowcatcher |
| 释义 | cowcatcher noun[ C ] USuk /ˈkaʊˌkætʃ.ər/ us /ˈkaʊˌkætʃ.ɚ/ a strong metal frame attached to the front of a train that pushes objects off the track as the train moves forward（火车机车前的）排障器 davelogan/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Railways: trains & parts of trains aerial tram aerial tramway bogie boiler bullet train carriage coach diesel emergency cord footplate guard's van luggage van puffer train rolling stock shunter sleeper sleeping car smoker super-express third rail As many wounded as possible were piled on to the engine, standing in the cab, lying on the tender, or clinging to the cowcatcher. Freight-trains passed southward, blue with men in the cars, and on top of the cars, and in the caboose, and on the cowcatcher, always going south and never north. I could only place stones on the line, but these were swept away by the cowcatcher, and so the train passed in safety. The engine itself had most of the cowcatcher torn off and the headlight smashed. Then I approached a station where the fireman always went out to the cowcatcher, opened the oil-cup on the steam-chest, and poured oil in. Examples of cowcatchercowcatcher A steel pipe or boiler tube pilot replaced the original wooden type of cowcatcher. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A deflective shield affixed to the front of a locomotive to protect its wheels from on-track debris; archaically called a cowcatcher. 2. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In some countries it is also called cowcatcher or cattle catcher. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The cowcatcher is an angled assembly designed to deflect animals and debris off of the railroad track in front of the locomotive. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The locomotive also received many new upgrades such as a new boiler, cowcatcher, domes, and smokestack. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He has a cowcatcher, and side plates covering his wheels. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Others are fitted with grilled cowcatcher. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Sometime during the early 20th century the locomotive was converted from coal burning to oil burning and its wooden cowcatcher pilot was replaced with a steel pipe pilot. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Macdonald traveled with his wife, and to get a better view, the two would sometimes sit in front of the locomotive on the train's cowcatcher. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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