Definition of Trippers

1. Noun. (plural of tripper) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trippers

1. tripper [n] - See also: tripper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trippers

tripoidal
tripoint
tripolar
tripole
tripoles
tripoli
tripolis
tripolyphosphate
tripolyphosphates
tripos
triposes
trippant
tripped
tripped up
tripper
trippers (current term)
trippery
trippet
trippets
trippier
trippiest
trippiness
tripping
tripping up
trippingly
trippings
trippkeite
tripple
trippled
trippler

Literary usage of Trippers

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

1. Belt Conveyors and Belt Elevators by Frederic Valerius Hetzel (1922)
"This has been the experience of others using fixed trippers with by-pass chutes ... A traveling tripper bends the belt less than a series of fixed trippers, ..."

2. Studies in the Cost of Urban Transportation Service by Frederick William Doolittle, American Electric Railway Association (1916)
"CHAPTER XI THE APPLICATION OF TRAFFIC DATA The Determining Factors in Schedule Making, Minimum Headway,- Meeting Points, Use of trippers, ..."

3. The "Flower of Gloster," by Ernest Temple Thurston (1911)
"XXXI A CURE FOR trippers IF I were to write of Stratford-on-Avon, I should be doing myself an irreparable injustice. I have one recollection of the place, ..."

4. The Lone Swallows by Henry Williamson (1922)
"COCKNEY BIRD trippers MY work necessitated long hours in London, and I used to bless the sparrows; I was never tired of watching them. ..."

5. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1917)
"The trippers consist essentially of two pulleys, one above and slightly in advance of the ... The trippers may be movable or fixed, single or in series. ..."

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