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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rack or rail provided with cogs, placed between the rails of a railroad-track, to enable a locomotive provided with cogged driving-gear to draw trains up acclivities too steep for ordinary methods of traction.
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It was supported on four wheels, but they did not drive the engine; its two cylinders were connected to one wheel behind, which was toothed and worked in the cog-rail, and so drove the engine.
Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair
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