Definition of Bogies

1. Noun. (plural of bogie) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bogies

1. bogie [n] - See also: bogie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bogies

bogging down
bogging off
boggish
boggle
boggled
boggler
bogglers
boggles
bogglesome
boggling
bogglingly
bogglish
boggsite
boggy
bogie
bogies (current term)
bogland
boglands
bogle
bogles
boglet
boglets
bogmat
bogoak
bogoaks
bogon
bogon filter
bogong
bogongs
bogons

Literary usage of Bogies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"SPIRITS, GHOSTS, AND bogies Giants, dwarfs, talking animals, ... These beings must be put in the general class of bogies, and, though one is tempted to see, ..."

2. The Railway Locomotive: What it is and why it is what it is by Vaughan Pendred (1908)
"It is claimed for it that it was an English invention, because small four-wheeled coal mine trucks were called "bogies." But in the United States what we ..."

3. A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid by Georg Lunge (1880)
"They are tilted out of the bogies as soon as they have solidified, usually just before the bogie is required for drawing the next charge; ..."

4. North American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1916)
"SPIRITS, GHOSTS, AND bogies Giants, dwarfs, talking animals, ... These beings must be put In the general class of bogies, and, though one is tempted to see, ..."

5. Songs of the Cowboys by Nathan Howard Thorp (1921)
"GET ALONG, LITTLE bogies Heard this song sung in Tombstone, Arizona, by Jim Falls. As I walked out one morning for pleasure, I spied a cow-puncher all ..."

6. Integration of European Inland Transport Markets by Ecmt, (Paris) European Conference of Ministers (2000)
"For freight services it has been possible in some cases to change the wagon bogies, but it is more common to tranship goods from standard gauge wagons to ..."

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