| 单词 | sun kink |
| 释义 | > as lemmassun kink sun kink n. North American (on a railway) a deformation in a rail caused by high temperatures; the condition of having such deformations. ΚΠ 1884 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 16 July 5/1 A train on a Canadian railroad had been derailed by a ‘sun kink in the track’. 1913 Amer. Federationist Feb. 126 The specific defects..are broken and spread rails, soft track, bad ties, sun kink, and irregular track. 1954 G. A. Lathrop Little Engines & Big Men xxvii. 317 I hit a sun kink one day, making about forty miles an hour. We were on it before we saw it. 2007 B. Seranella Deadman's Switch 135 There was a danger of sun kinks, although a mile-long freight train passed by there an hour earlier. < as lemmas |
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