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contact wire en · NOUN
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A bare wire conducting electricity, often the lower part of the catenary, which comes into contact with a raised pantograph or other form of current collector.
Overhead electric equipment generally stood up well both to the weight of vertically falling snow and to the effects of snow on contact wires; [...].
1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158:
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