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Caterpillar track

Caterpillar track \Cat"er*pil`lar track\, n. an endless belt looped over several wheels, used in pairs in place of wheels to propel vehicles, such as tractors or military tanks, over rough ground.

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caterpillar track

n. A continuous track in the form of a steel or rubber belt fitted instead of wheels to crawlers, bulldozers, tanks and similar off-road vehicles.

WordNet
caterpillar track

n. an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground [syn: track, caterpillar tread]

Usage examples of "caterpillar track".

A series of flat plates arranged in a circle, each plate independently mounted and sprung, the flex-wheel had many of the advantages of the caterpillar track from which it had evolved.

It would adapt its shape and diameter to the terrain over which it was moving, and, unlike a caterpillar track, would continue to function even if a few sections were missing.

He recalled the frenzied repair work, the relief when the second start had been made-and the final debacle when the caterpillar track had jammed.

Bearing the chief of the scientific monsters, and the plump Jane Davidson, this air car turned on what seemed a caterpillar track of its own.

Jackstraw had drawn up broadside on to the wind and the slope of the hill and I jumped down to rig up a canvas shelter extending out from the cabin: it was nothing elaborate, just a triangular sheet of proofed canvas attached to the top of the cabin and the cleat of a caterpillar track on its vertical side, with its apex stretched out to a spike hammered into the surface of the ice-cap: there was no room for us all within the cabin at meal-times, I wanted some protection when we kept our 8 a.

From the direction of the boundary station they could see some caterpillar track vehicles approaching.