单词 | cattle-guard |
释义 | cattle-guardn. A wide and deep trench cut across a railway (under the rails), on each side of a level crossing, to prevent cattle from straying along the line; a ‘cow-pit’. (In U.S.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > trench to keep cattle from line cattle-guard1843 cattle-pit1883 1843 in Edwards Chancery Cases III. 489 The first cattle guards he saw were in one thousand eight hundred and thirty six. 1881 Chicago Times 14 May The night was..dark, and in groping along the track the negro fell into a cattle-guard. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1843 |
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