drawgear

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English

Etymology

From draw +‎ gear.

Noun

drawgear (plural drawgears)

  1. A harness for draught horses.
  2. (rail transport) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.
    • 1961 February, “Letters to the Editor: Swiss railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 126:
      Although loads of up to 900 tonnes could be handled by one of these locomotives, in practice the load is limited to 790 tonnes by drawgear.

References

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “drawgear”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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