Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In railroads, of a gage less than the standard gage of 4 feet 8½ inches.
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Examples
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The narrow-gage goal of killing a monster in WoW, for which you need both hands free to press lots of different firing and flying buttons and you need to move fast and communicate quickly to a large group of people does better with voice.
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The mixer was so placed that it would dump onto a platform, and the concrete could then be shoveled into a specially designed narrow-gage car.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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They ran on into the tunnel, Tom and Mr. Damon noticing that a small narrow-gage railroad was laid on the floor, mules being the motive power to bring out the small dump cars loaded with rock and dirt, excavated from the big hole.
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel, or, the Hidden City of the Andes Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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After a night spent in a comfortable hotel in Great Falls, I departed early in the morning, over the narrow-gage railway which ran up into Canada and was familiarly known as the "Turkey trail."
Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919
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A little narrow-gage "railway" crawls off through the jungle beyond
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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It was a chilly gray day when the little narrow-gage train bore us close by the miraculous temple of Guadalupe, with its hilltop cemetery and stone sails, and into the vast fields of maguey beyond.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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After a night spent in a comfortable hotel in Great Falls, I departed early in the morning, over the narrow-gage railway which ran up into Canada and was familiarly known as the "Turkey trail."
Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919
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But she just presses her lips together -- thin, narrow-gage lips, they was -- and goes on givin 'us that distant, unconcerned look.
Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907
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His digestive tract was on the narrow-gage American plan.
Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906
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His narrow-gage American digestive apparatus had, it appeared, finally rebelled over the broad German fare.
Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906
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