WordNet
caterpillar tread
n. an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground [syn: track, caterpillar track]
Usage examples of "caterpillar tread".
Now we are deaf, dumb and blind, too-and missing one leg because our port caterpillar tread won't work.
It came to rest on the thermocline, and the transparent caterpillar tread of jelly which ran around it moved feebly, trying vainly to get traction on the sliding water interface.
Suddenly he gave a screech of pain and threw himself out, falling ten feet onto the mud and just barely missing the right-side caterpillar tread as the machine lumbered forward.
The long-looking loose-limbed man was lying beside the caterpillar tread of the shovel.
He brought his balled fist down on the edge of the broken caterpillar tread by his shoulder.