Word Meanings - DRAWBAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.

• Spritefully
  Alt. of Spritely
• Spruntly
  In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully.
• COUPLEBEGGAR
  One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift.
• Provided
  of Provide
• Sprained
  of Sprain
• Sprechery
  Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation.
• Sprigtail
  The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail.
• Springlet
  A little spring.
• Spriteliness
  Alt. of Spritely
• COUPLECLOSE
  A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised. 2. (Arch.)
• Providing
  of Provide
• Spraining
  of Sprain
• Sprung
  of Spring
• Springtail
  Any one of numerous species of small apterous insects belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable
• Spritely
  See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.
• Trained
  of Train
• Between
  In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
• OPENMOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.

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