"drawhook" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: drawhooks [plural]
Etymology: From draw + hook. Etymology templates: {{af|en|draw|hook}} draw + hook Head templates: {{en-noun}} drawhook (plural drawhooks)
  1. (rail transport) A coupling hook. Categories (topical): Rail transportation
    Sense id: en-drawhook-en-noun-Hx5RCFmd Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport

Inflected forms

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          "text": "[...] as to wrought iron drawhooks, the failure of one of which, in a coarsely crystalline condition, was the principal cause of the accident, it was laid down in March 1934, that all new wagon drawbars must be of steel to British Standard Specification No. 80, [...].",
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