Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A link for connecting or attaching together two objects, as railroad-cars, or for rendering a section of a chain detachable. See
connecting-link .
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Examples
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They were the most meager bumpers I had ever seen — I do not refer to the real bumpers, the iron bumpers that are connected by the coupling-link and that pound and grind on each other; what I refer to are the beams, like huge cleats, that cross the ends of freight-cars just above the bumpers.
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They were the most meagre bumpers I had ever seen — I do not refer to the real bumpers, the iron bumpers that are connected by the coupling-link and that pound and grind on each other; what I refer to are the beams, like huge cleats, that cross the ends of freight cars just above the bumpers.
Bulls 1907
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They were the most meagre bumpers I had ever seen — I do not refer to the real bumpers, the iron bumpers that are connected by the coupling-link and that pound and grind on each other; what I refer to are the beams, like huge cleats, that cross the ends of freight cars just above the bumpers.
Bulls 1907
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But whilst the master called to them, the axe dashed down upon the fetters, and one great stroke smote the coupling-link in twain.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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