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drag-chain (-tʃeɪn) 1. A chain used to retard the motion of a vehicle; esp. ‘a strong chain, with a large hook to hitch on the hind wheel, and keep it from turning when descending a hill’ (Felton Carriages, 1801).a 1791 Warton in Boswell Johnson an. 1754 (Visit Oxford) He cried out ‘Sufflamina’..as ...
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Drag chain
Drag chain may refer to: Cable carrier in moving machinery Drag conveyor, for moving bulk material A type of chain shift in linguistics Part of a dragline excavator Chain used to slow a ship during a ship launching
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drag-hook
drag-hook 1. A hook used for dragging.1530 Palsgr. 215/1 Draghoke, crocq. 1653 Walton Angler x. 193 You may..take it up with a drag-hook. 1848 J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inferno xxi. 253 They lowered their drag-hooks. 1870 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §3038 The drag-hook is another implement for...
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Hartford, Tennessee
The bandsaw hummed, the cut-off saw screeched, and the drag-chain rumbled as it carried trash, cull lumber, and sawdust up the conveyor to the blazing
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push-
push- the stem of push v., or push n.1, in combination. a. General: in the senses (a) moved or actuated by a push, or by pushing, as push-bar, push-basket, push-boat, push-net, push-nipple, push-pick, push-plane, push-tap; (b) used for pushing, communicating a push, as push-pedal, push-piece, push-p...
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bur
▪ I. bur, burr, n. (bɜː(r)) Forms: 4 borre, 4–7 burre, 6– bur, 7– burr. [app. identical or cogn. with Da. borre bur, burdock, Sw. borre sea-urchin, and in comb. kard-borre burdock, though the word is not found in ON., nor in Eng. before the 14th c. A derivation from F. bourre ‘rough hair, flock of w...
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drag
▪ I. drag, v. (dræg) Also 5–6 dragge. [Not known before 15th c. A derivative of OE. draᵹan, or ON. draga (Sw. draga, Da. drage) to draw. Perh. a special northern dialect-form in which the g has been preserved instead of forming a diphthong with the prec. a, as in English generally: cf. Jos. Wright, ...
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