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Definition of Pedrail
1. n. A device intended to replace the wheel of a self-propelled vehicle for use on rough roads and to approximate to the smoothness in running of a wheel on a metal track. The tread consists of a number of rubber shod feet which are connected by ball-and-socket joints to the ends of sliding spokes. Each spoke has attached to it a small roller which in its turn runs under a short pivoted rail controlled by a powerful set of springs. This arrangement permits the feet to accomodate themselves to obstacles even such as steps or stairs. The pedrail was invented by one B. J. Diplock of London, Eng.
Definition of Pedrail
1. a tractor whose wheels have little feet [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedrail
Literary usage of Pedrail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New System of Heavy Goods Transport on Common Roads by Bramah Joseph Diplock (1902)
"BEFORE describing the pedrail it will perhaps be interesting to the reader to
hear the further reasons which led to its evolution. ..."
2. The Empire Review (1905)
"Improved "pedrail" Tractor. In the first article of this series I drew attention
to an interesting novelty in road traction—the ..."
3. Page's Engineering Weekly (1904)
"The Professor described the mechanism of the pedrail in detail, ... He proceeded
to express the belief that the pedrail vehicle had passed from the stage of ..."
4. The Romance of Modern Exploration: With Descriptions of Curious Customs by Archibald Williams (1908)
"This is what Professor Hele-Shaw says in a report on a pedrail tractor: "The ...
The contact of each of the feet of the pedrail is absolutely free from all ..."
5. The Romance of Modern Mechanism: With Interesting Descriptions in Non by Archibald Williams (1907)
"This is what Professor Hele-Shaw says in a report on a pedrail tractor: "The ...
The contact of each of the feet of the pedrail is absolutely free from all ..."
6. Professional Memoirs, Corps of Engineers, United States Army and Engineer by U.S. Army Engineer School, Henry Ernest Haferkon, United States Army. Corps of Engineers (1917)
"The pedrail climbing an incline. Fig. 31. Sections, of pedrail feet. Fig. 32.
... original pedrail, 1901. Fig. 33. ..."
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