Definition of Deadwoods

1. deadwood [n] - See also: deadwood

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadwoods

deadrises
deads
deadset
deadstick
deadstick landing
deadsticked
deadsticking
deadsticks
deadstock
deadtime
deadtimes
deadweight
deadweight ton
deadweights
deadwood
deadwoods (current term)
deadworks
deae-cellulose
deae-dextran
deae ex machinis
deaerate
deaerated
deaerates
deaerating
deaeration
deaerations
deaerator
deaerators
deaf
deaf(p)

Literary usage of Deadwoods

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

1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1899)
"The double deadwoods were referred to and described as follows: "These two freight-cars aforesaid had attached to them, where the coupling was made, ..."

2. The N.Y. Weekly Digest of Cases Decided in the U.S. Supreme, Circuit, and (1886)
"Each car had a bumper, and on either side of the bumper, and at a distance of some inches, "deadwoods." When the cars had come within four feet of each ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"... dangers Incident to coupling cars with double buffers are greater than those Incident to the coupling of cars with single deadwoods of the common type. ..."

4. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1905)
"Note on the road on which the brakeman is employed are equipped differently, or with single deadwoods. So held in Chicago, etc., R. Co. v. Curtis, 15 Neb. ..."

5. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1897)
"The danger of getting between the deadwoods of cars in motion and liable to come ... Merely being between the deadwoods of two. cars, rightfully in the ..."

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