Word Meanings - DRAWGEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn. (more info) 1. A harness for draught horses.

Related words: (words related to DRAWGEAR)

• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
  The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• DRAUGHT
  The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation. Dryden. 2. That which is drawn; as: That which is taken by sweeping with a net. Launch out into the deep,
• DRAUGHTSMAN
  1. One who draws pleadings or other writings. 2. One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind. 3. A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts. 4. One who drinks
• HORSESHOEING
  The act or employment of shoeing horses.
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• HORSESHOER
  One who shoes horses.
• DRAUGHTBOARD
  A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.
• DRAUGHTHOUSE
  A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. 2 Kings x. 27.
• DRAUGHTY
  Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.
• CONNECT
  Etym: 1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each
• HARNESS
  harnois; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. harnez old iron, armor, W. 1. Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor. At least we 'll die witch harness on our back. Shak. 2. The equipment
• DRAWNET
  A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.
• HARNESS CASK
  A tub lashed to a vessel's deck and containing salted provisions for daily use; -- called also harness tub. W. C. Russell.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• CUBDRAWN
  Sucked by cubs. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.
• UNHARNESS
  1. To strip of harness; to loose from harness or gear; as, to unharness horses or oxen. Cowper. 2. To disarm; to divest of armor. Holinshed.