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n. A truck-like enclosed vehicle on tracks, designed to move on snow.
Wikipedia
A snowcat is an enclosed-cab, truck-sized, fully tracked vehicle designed to move on snow.
Snowcats used for snow grooming are also called 'piste machines', 'trail groomers' (in North American English) or 'piste bashers' (in British English) because of their use in preparing ski trails (" pistes") or snowmobile trails. Most snowcats, such as the ones produced by Bombardier or Aktiv in the past, have two sets of tracks, fitted with a Christie suspension or a Vickers suspension. Others, like the Tucker Sno-Cat and Hägglunds Bandvagn 206 vehicles, have a complex arrangement of four or more tracks.
The tracks are usually made of rubber, aluminum or steel and driven by a single sprocket on each side, and ride over rubber wheels with a solid foam interior. Their design is optimized for a snow surface, or soft grounds such as that of a peat bog. In addition to grooming snow they are used for polar expeditions, logging in marsh areas, leveling sugar beet piles, and seismic studies in the wild.
The cabs are optimized for use in sub-zero weather or cold conditions worsened by wind chill, with strong forced heating and a windshield designed to be kept clear of internal and external ice or condensation through a variety of means such as advanced coatings, external scrapers (windshield wipers of a modified type), and internal ducts blowing hot air on the surface.
Usage examples of "snowcat".
Paks let her concentration waver, and at once the snowcat moved, shifting in a kind of constricted hop, as she caught her control back.
As for the snowcat having no defense, it was trying to spell you the entire time.
Now she turned, and with a powerful heave pushed the snowcat over the edge.
When she told of the coming of the snowcat, she felt through the bones of her head the sharpening of his gaze and struggled on.
Give me the ring, with which you bound the snowcat, so that you cannot misuse such power again.
Sparks of anger in those green eyes made Keris think of a snowcat he had once seen at bay.
However, with snowcat and pard sharing her family, she certainly was aware of the proper mind-levels for communication at least within their species.
When the snowcat is pursued hotly, she heads for her den, as every wall of that she knows well and she will use all she knows.
And the only way to do that, in this weather, was by snowcat, a monstrous-looking vehicle with snow tracks for wheels and a powerful engine that could propel it over nearly any obstacle.
The snowcat carried three passengers besides the driver and could pull up to ten men on skis.
Caffey stared out from the snowcat, scanning the rolling terrain for any sign of an enemy.
Lieutenant Speck lunged forward from his place behind Caffey in the snowcat, pointing ahead.
Caffey reached them at the snowcat as they were dusting snow from their goggles and face masks.
If you do, and the snowcat checks out, then I have an idea we can discuss.
When the snowcat had leveled out and was crossing the last few feet of snow-covered dirt before the frozen fjord, he felt a tightening in his crotch.