Definition of Cogway

1. a railway operating on steep slopes [n -WAYS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cogway

cogovern
cogovernor
cogovernors
cograph
cographs
cogredient
cogroup
cogroups
cogs
coguardian
coguardians
cogue
cogues
cogware
cogwares
cogway (current term)
cogways
cogwheel
cogwheel ocular movements
cogwheel phenomenon
cogwheel respiration
cogwheel rigidity
cogwheeled
cogwheeling
cogwheels
cohab
cohabitant
cohabitants
cohabitate

Literary usage of Cogway

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

1. Over the Range to the Golden Gate: A Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado by Stanley Wood, C. E. Hooper (1903)
"... at a height of 14147 feet above sea-level, it renders almost insignificant, by comparison, the famous cogway up Mt. Washington and the incline railway ..."

2. An Unattended Journey: Or Ten Thousand Miles by Rail by Stanley Wood (1895)
"Between the rails, in the centre of the track, extends the cogway, into which the cogwheels of the engine press, held in place by the many tons weight of ..."

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