Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bar across the rear of a tractor for hitching machinery.
- noun A railroad coupler.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bar used to connect two railroad-cars or locomotives. See
drag-bar . - noun A bar, or one of a set of bars, in a fence, which can be drawn back or let down to allow passage, as along a road or path.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.
- noun A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rail transport An
open-mouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car isdrawn . It is usually provided with a spring to giveelasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. - noun rail transport A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for
coupling alocomotive to atender or car. - noun road transport A device to couple a powered road vehicle to a load to transfer tractive effort to the load, either as a push or as a pull. (See also Wikipedia:Drawbar)
- noun music A sliding bar on a
Hammond organ , controlling thevolume of awaveform . - noun engineering A device for changing the
tools onmilling machines
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled
Etymologies
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Examples
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The fufador consists of a wooden drawbar, which is fastened to the yoke of the draft animals, a leg and a shovel-like plow body.
1. Overview 1991
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And because I installed the winch on a Superwinch portable winch platform, the unit slipped into the front receiver nearly as easily as if I were sliding in a Class III drawbar.
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Not anymore, though; the last time I went browsing through new keyboards at the local gear shop, the sampling models were few and tucked into the back corner, crowded out by digitally recreated pianos, digitally recreated drawbar organs, and even digitally recreated analog synthesizers.
Archive 2007-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Not anymore, though; the last time I went browsing through new keyboards at the local gear shop, the sampling models were few and tucked into the back corner, crowded out by digitally recreated pianos, digitally recreated drawbar organs, and even digitally recreated analog synthesizers.
New Romantics Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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From drawbar at the rear to sun canopy at the front she measures about 21 feet, and across she's about 14 feet.
Archive 2007-10-01 Spinningfishwife 2007
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From drawbar at the rear to sun canopy at the front she measures about 21 feet, and across she's about 14 feet.
Thereyougothen.... Spinningfishwife 2007
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Furthermore, strong draft forces are placed on the contact point between the plowbody and the drawbar.
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The beam ard usually has a curved wooden drawbar through which a working tool, for example a peg or the plow beam, is pierced.
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For the protection of the animals, especially on slopes, either the roller is covered or the attachment of a drawbar is necessary.
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The advantages with the drawbar are improved maneuverability, smaller headland (6 m instead of 10 m with chain) and easier reversing in the case of obstacles (Becker, 1987).
chained_bear commented on the word drawbar
Sliding wooden bar used to secure a door in the closed position.
August 25, 2008
MaryW commented on the word drawbar
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 48June 19, 2017