Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The part of a locomotive-boiler, over the fire-box, which is elevated above the rest of the shell. Its purpose is to provide greater steam-room.
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Examples
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She was my mother; that I knew as a matter of course, just as I knew, when I glanced along the canvas tunnel of the wagon-top, that the shoulders of the man on the driver's seat were the shoulders of my father.
Chapter 12 2010
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I could see driving one – especially if I could get a tarp wagon-top made for the little pickup.
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I could see driving one – especially if I could get a tarp wagon-top made for the little pickup.
Shit Knife 2008
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"It was a wagon-top," explained Rhoda, twitching her already nervous pony around.
Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Annie Roe Carr
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Stuffing the interstices with dried grass, and banking up the earth around it, she threw over it the wagon-top, which she fastened firmly to stakes driven in the ground, and thus provided a shelter tolerably rain-tight and weather-proof.
Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler
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The boiler of the _Pioneer_ is of the wagon-top, crownbar, fire-tube style and is made of a 5/16-inch thick, wrought-iron plate.
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While some readers may believe this to be an extremely early example of a wagon-top boiler, we should remember that most New England builders produced few locomotives with the Bury (dome) boiler and that the chief advocates of this later style were the Philadelphia builders.
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She was my mother; that I knew as a matter of course, just as I knew, when I glanced along the canvas tunnel of the wagon-top, that the shoulders of the man on the driver's seat were the shoulders of my father.
Chapter 12 1915
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Algonkian name of wigwam, of wagon-top shape, with perpendicular sides and ends and rounded roof, and constructed of stout poles set in the ground and covered with bark or with mats woven of grass or rushes.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Their houses, consisting of a framework of poles covered with bark or mats woven of rushes, were of wagon-top shape and accommodated several families each.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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