drawgearとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

drawgear (countable and uncountable, plural drawgears)

1. (countable) A harness for draught horses.
2. (rail transport) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.
   • 1958 April, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 275:

     Constructional features of the railbus include the use of rubber suspension for axlebox/underframe and underframe/body mountings, the use of B.U.T. power transmission equipment, many components of which are interchangeable with those on British Railways standard railcars, power-operated sliding doors, and an absence of normal sidebuffers or drawgear.

   • 1961 February, “Letters to the Editor: Swiss railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 126:

     Although loads of up to 900 tonnes could be handled by one of these locomotives, in practice the load is limited to 790 tonnes by drawgear.

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