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tire chains

n. chains attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow [syn: snow chains]

Usage examples of "tire chains".

Gomez got the battery, electronic ignition box, cassette player, sheepskin, jack, lug wrenches, tire chains, half case of Ray-Lube, spare fan belt, alternator, and three gallons of gasoline.

Reaching in experimentally, he expected to find the tire chains at the outer edge of the trunk, where he had left them.

Over the chittering of the tire chains and the grumble of the engine, as they descended from the Sierras in a train of cars behind a snowplow and cinder truck, Clocker told them about the Network.

As the patrol car passed us, accompanied by the keening and rhythmic ticking of its own tire chains, we saw the uniformed goblin driving.

The engine growled, the tire chains rang rhythms from the pavement, and we raced downhill, aiming to sweep past the overturned SUV and take out the fiend.

He stopped at an Arco station, bought tire chains, and put them on before heading into the mountains.

Most of the people in the street were still lying flat on their backs, or wandering aimlessly, but there were enough men and women converging on the robed and chained Wardens, and each carrying something heavy -- tire irons, tire chains, jack handles, a baseball bat.

It was a late-model Pontiac equipped with tire chains that sang on the pavement.

It was a crawl tail--tire chains on crusted blacktop--two cars and one deserted expressway.

Macon tried to invent a need for a rusty metal Rolodex file he found in a heap of tire chains.