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词汇 cat train
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Definition of cat train in English:

cat train

noun
Canadian
  • A crawler tractor pulling a train of sleighs across snow or ice.

    〈北美〉(由履带拖拉机拉动的)雪橇队

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He and Joe put many a tough hour with the cat train.
    • John Gould presented a slide show about his days on the Dempster cat trains at the Oddfellows Hall.
    • However, the cat train method was slow and cumbersome, restricting the amount of freight that could be transported.
    • From these points, transportation to various isolated camps would either be by cat train or bush plane.
    • Though the company hoped to acquire airplanes as a means of transporting freight and mail, they never did, but used snowmobiles and cat trains instead.
    • The speed of the cat train was between three and four miles an hour; thus 25 miles of travel was considered a good day's accomplishment.

Origin

Cat from caterpillar.

Definition of cat train in US English:

cat train

noun
Canadian
  • A crawler tractor pulling a train of sleighs across snow or ice.

    〈北美〉(由履带拖拉机拉动的)雪橇队

    Example sentencesExamples
    • From these points, transportation to various isolated camps would either be by cat train or bush plane.
    • However, the cat train method was slow and cumbersome, restricting the amount of freight that could be transported.
    • John Gould presented a slide show about his days on the Dempster cat trains at the Oddfellows Hall.
    • Though the company hoped to acquire airplanes as a means of transporting freight and mail, they never did, but used snowmobiles and cat trains instead.
    • He and Joe put many a tough hour with the cat train.
    • The speed of the cat train was between three and four miles an hour; thus 25 miles of travel was considered a good day's accomplishment.

Origin

Cat from caterpillar.

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