narrow-gauge en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge.
On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:
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(not-comparable) Limited or petty.
It seems to the editors that this is somehow curiously reminiscent of Whorf's defense of Native American languages and cultures in the face of narrow-gauge views on language and culture at the time, without going so far as to take a strict Sapir-Whorfian stance that might posit unbridgeable gaps in translation theory and practice from one culture to the next.
2013, Luc van Doorslaer, Peter Flynn, Eurocentrism in Translation Studies, →ISBN, page 6:
Translations (12)
de schmalspurig ((rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge) · rsk узкоколяйови ((rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge) · ru узкоколе́йный ((rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge) · hu keskeny nyomközű ((rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge) · be вузкакале́йны ((rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge) · pl wąskotorowy ((rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge) · de Schmalspur- ((rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge) · cs úzkokolejný ((rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge) · nb smalsporet ((rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge) · uk вузькоколі́йний ((rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge) · hu keskeny nyomtávú ((rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge) · hu keskeny nyomtávolságú ((rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge)