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drawhook en · NOUN

Etymology

From draw + hook.

Meanings

1. A coupling hook.
   • [...] as to wrought iron drawhooks, the failure of one of which, in a coarsely crystalline condition, was the principal cause of the accident, it was laid down in March 1934, that all new wagon drawbars must be of steel to British Standard Specification No. 80, [...]. 1940 November, “Notes and News: A Highland Collision”, in Railway Magazine, page 612:

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