Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
parallel rod (which see, underrod ).
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Examples
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And half a mile ahead on the permanent way, Death stood watching -- watching and waiting where, by some hideous accident of fate, a faulty coupling-rod had snapped asunder in the process of shunting, leaving a solitary coal-truck to slide slowly back into the shadows of the night, unseen, the while its fellows were safely drawn on to a aiding.
The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler
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"Engine's broken her coupling-rod, sir -- just before we came to the viaduct.
Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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