cat train
noun Canadian
A crawler tractor pulling a train of sleighs across snow or ice.He and Joe put many a tough hour with the cat train....
- From these points, transportation to various isolated camps would either be by cat train or bush plane.
- John Gould presented a slide show about his days on the Dempster cat trains at the Oddfellows Hall.
Origin
Cat from caterpillar.
- make a hash of
- make-ahead
- make a hit
- make a hole in
- make a Horlicks of
- make a House
- make a joke of
- make a killing
- make allowance(s) for
- make a man out of someone
- make a market
- make a match
- make a meal of
- make a mess
- make a mess of
- make a mockery of
- make (a) mock of
- make a monkey of (or out of) someone
- make a mountain out of a molehill
- make a move
- make a move on (or put the moves on)
- make a muck of
- make a name for oneself
- make an ass of oneself
- make-and-break