drawrod
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
drawrod (plural drawrods)
- (rail transport) A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “drawrod”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)