Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedrails
Literary usage of Pedrails
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)
"2 engine are designed to maintain hard contact of all four wheels or pedrails
with the road when any one wheel is mounting an obstacle not exceeding twelve ..."
2. The Romance of Modern Exploration: With Descriptions of Curious Customs by Archibald Williams (1908)
"This lane was composed in places of the softest mud, and whereas the wheels
squeezed out the ground in all directions, the feet of the pedrails set ..."
3. The Romance of Modern Mechanism: With Interesting Descriptions in Non by Archibald Williams (1907)
"This lane was composed in places of the softest mud, and whereas the wheels
squeezed out the ground in all directions, the feet of the pedrails set ..."
4. Rural England: Being an Account of Agricultural and Social Researches by Henry Rider Haggard (1906)
"Thus Mr. BJ Diplock has invented a new traction engine running on substitutes
for ordinary wheels that he calls ' pedrails,' which, it is said, ..."
5. The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book by George Goodchild (1916)
"... and he called them pedrails. . . . Fancy meeting them here ! " The marksman
beside him raised his head and shoulders in a speculative mood to fire more ..."
6. Tanks, 1914-1918: The Log-book of a Pioneer by Albert Gerald Stern (1919)
"The Committee was also engaged in the construction of two Land Battleships, one
on Diplock pedrails and the other on the special Creeper Grip tracks made in ..."
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