Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadwoods
Literary usage of Deadwoods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1899)
"The double deadwoods were referred to and described as follows: "These two
freight-cars aforesaid had attached to them, where the coupling was made, ..."
2. The N.Y. Weekly Digest of Cases Decided in the U.S. Supreme, Circuit, and (1886)
"Each car had a bumper, and on either side of the bumper, and at a distance of
some inches, "deadwoods." When the cars had come within four feet of each ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"... dangers Incident to coupling cars with double buffers are greater than those
Incident to the coupling of cars with single deadwoods of the common type. ..."
4. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1905)
"Note on the road on which the brakeman is employed are equipped differently, or
with single deadwoods. So held in Chicago, etc., R. Co. v. Curtis, 15 Neb. ..."
5. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1897)
"The danger of getting between the deadwoods of cars in motion and liable to come
... Merely being between the deadwoods of two. cars, rightfully in the ..."
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