Definition of Drawhead. Meaning of Drawhead. Synonyms of Drawhead

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Definition of Drawhead

Drawhead
Drawhead Draw"head`, n. (Railroad) The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.

Meaning of Drawhead from wikipedia

- significant disadvantage of using the AAR (Janney) design is that sometimes the drawheads need to be manually aligned. During the transition period from link-and-pin...
- cars together on railroad track. The knuckle coupler have a bifurcated drawhead and a revolving hook, which, when brought in contact with another coupler...
- coupler, and the strength of this drawhead was not infinite. While the engine could not push hard enough to break the drawhead, the engineer needed to avoid...
- standing behind a moving train a dropping a heavy pin through the top of a drawhead to link cars, a process that all too frequently resulted in mutilated hands...