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单词 caterpillar wheel
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caterpillar wheel
b. In full caterpillar tractor [Caterpillar, proprietary term] : a type of tractor which travels upon two endless steel bands, one on each side of the machine, to facilitate travel over very rough ground. Also caterpillar lorry, caterpillar tank, caterpillar wheel, etc.; caterpillar-wheeled adj.
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1908 Sci. Amer. 16 May 348/1 The ‘Caterpillar’ Tractor. For some months past the British military authorities have been experimenting with a new type of tractor for the haulage of heavy vehicles over rough and unstable ground... The soldiers at the Aldershot military center, where it is in operation, promptly christened it the ‘caterpillar’.
1911 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 28 Nov. 1079/2 The Holt Manufacturing Company, Stockton, Cal. Caterpillar. Gasolene, Steam, and Traction Engines, Harvesters, and Road-Working Machines.
1914 Illustr. London News 5 Sept. 369 A 21-centimetre siege-mortar—with ‘caterpillar’ wheels.
1915 W. S. Churchill Let. 5 Jan. in World Crisis (1923) II. 74 The caterpillar system would enable trenches to be crossed quite easily.
1915 W. S. Churchill Memorandum 3 Dec. in World Crisis (1923) II. 87 The Caterpillars will be so close to the enemy's line that they will be immune from his artillery.
1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 467/1 Government road-building throughout the interior has paved the way for automobiles, caterpillars and traction-engines.
1915 Trade Marks Jrnl. 8 Dec. 1224 Class 6. Caterpillar. Tractors and Traction Engines, being Machinery included in Class 6. Caterpillar Tractors, Limited,..Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.
1922 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. From In-Salah the caterpillar-wheeled cars will cross the plateau of Tidikelt.
1922 Other Lands July 119/1 It has caterpillars and motor-ploughs.
1923 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 487 The arrangement of ‘caterpillar’ traction, with which they were fitted.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 50 Caterpillar, a familiar name for the tractor fitted with ‘girdles’, or flat slabs of metal, round their wheels, employed to haul heavy guns and large vehicles on soft ground.
1928 G. Haardt & L. Audouin-Dubreuil Black Journey i On the 28th of October, 1924, the eight caterpillar auto trucks left Colomb-Bechar.
1935 H. G. Wells Things to Come v. 33 Long lines of tanks and caterpillar lorries.
1935 Times 21 Dec. 9/3 The main body of the Italian troops, with light caterpillar tanks, advanced southwards.
1940 War Illustr. 16 Feb. 108 Caterpillar tractors built in the U.S.A. are awaiting shipment to France.
1958 Listener 19 June 1004/1 We were shown a huge iron machine on caterpillar tracks.
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