| 单词 | railway cat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrailway cat railway cat n. ΚΠ 1895 News (Frederick, Maryland) 21 Sept. ‘You have heard of a railroad dog, of course,’ said Cy Warman. ‘Everybody has, but I'll venture to say that you've never heard of a railway cat.’ 1939 T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Bk. Pract. Cats 41 You can leave all that to the Railway Cat, The Cat of the Railway Train! 1993 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 27 July a3 The tradition of railway cats goes back to the formation of British railway companies in the 1840s. They used the cats to prevent rats from chewing cables. < as lemmas |
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