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Locomotive's nose
Answer for the clue "Locomotive's nose ", 10 letters:
cowcatcher
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context archaic rail transport principally US English) The V-shaped device on the front of a locomotive (or other large vehicle) shaped so as to push objects on the tracks out of the way, to prevent major damage to the train.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cowcatcher \Cow"catch`er\ (-k?ch`?r), n. A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot . [U.S.] Syn: fender, buffer, pilot.
Usage examples of cowcatcher.
Lightning up alongside the roadbed again, as the engineer eased his air brakes on and brought the locomotive hissing to a stop at the cattle blockade, its cowcatcher nearly touching the nearest cow.
The cowcatcher lifted up the rearmost boxcar, catapulting the vehicle high enough to scrape along the top of the boiler and shear the lamp, smokestack, steam dome, and bell clean off the locomotive.
Its brightly painted cowcatcher ate up the yards as it thundered closer to them.
Eddie did, and for a moment saw nothingexcept for Charlie himself, of course: Charlie with his headlight eye and not-quite-trustworthy cowcatcher grin.
The picture was the same: an anthropomorphic locomotive puffing up a hill, its cowcatcher wearing a grin, its headlight a cheerful eye.
Doctor Rinderpest, the bestquoted cowcatcher in all Muscovy, with a bolus or two of physic to take the bull by the horns.
She wanted to know whether he owned an old Ford truck with a cowcatcher welded to the front bumper.
An old burgundy with a cowcatcher welded to the front bumper was not beyond the realm of possibility.
He has built a golem trap on the cowcatcher, has told them how to trip it should the silicate mist appear, but a golem of air will not last without his shepherding.
Its headlamps were eyes now, predictably, bristling with thick wire lashes, its cowcatcher a jawful of protruding teeth.
Charlie himself, of course: Charlie with his headlight eye and not-quite-trustworthy cowcatcher grin.
While doing this, I noticed that the lead truck in the convoy pushed a heavy trailer arrangement in front of it like a cowcatcher in front of a train.
But when the cowcatcher caught a mine and the convoy slammed to a halt, no one said a word.
You are the locomotive and here is your cowcatcher which precedes you down the dwindling rails of life.
There was no cowcatcher on the train, nothing to dig in or slow however marginally its headlong rush to extinction.