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First off, there's a lot of styling going on, particularly the massive cow-catcher/dicer/slicer chrome-rimmed grille.
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First off, there's a lot of styling going on, particularly the massive cow-catcher/dicer/slicer chrome-rimmed grille.
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Peru is the cow-catcher on the train of continental drift...
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Peru is the cow-catcher on the train of continental drift.
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A cow-catcher, welded onto the front of the vehicle, threw most of them out of the way.
Thunder and Ashes Z.A. Recht 2008
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Outside the vehicle, there's a nice long bonnet finishing in a cutting-edge seventies shovel-nose grille and a bumper that juts out like the cow-catcher on an overnight freight train.
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American English can (noun) tin checkers (game) draughts cow-catcher plough elevator lift ferns bracken hog-pen piggery hood (automobile) bonnet
SPEAK AMERICAN News from Mad Plato 2006
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American English can (noun) tin checkers (game) draughts cow-catcher plough elevator lift ferns bracken hog-pen piggery hood (automobile) bonnet
Archive 2006-05-01 News from Mad Plato 2006
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A novel about a train engineer becoming terribly paranoid from the number of people who've hurled themselves onto his cow-catcher?
HH Com 208 (203) Miss Snark 2006
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The locomotive, its great funnel emitting a weird light, with its sharp bell, and its cow-catcher extended like a spur, mingled its shrieks and bellowings with the noise of torrents and cascades, and twined its smoke among the branches of the gigantic pines.
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