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Definition of Trailers
1. trailer [v] - See also: trailer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trailers
Literary usage of Trailers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Motor Truck Transportation: The Principles Governing Its Success by Frederick Van Zandt Lane (1921)
"The utility of trailers and of semi-trailers is fast becoming known, with the
result that their use has increased 100 per cent. in the last year. ..."
2. Handbook of Construction Equipment: Its Cost and Use by Richard Turner Dana (1921)
"All the above trailers have 1% inch solid rubber tires. Prices are fob Ohio.
Reversible Hauling and Spreading Slow Speed trailers for use with tractors are ..."
3. Joint Report with Comprehensive Plan and Recommendations by William Russell Willcox (1920)
"The new piers base and a few at the Bush Terminal warehouses, tractors and trailers
are used at a number of warehouses, and tiering machines of one kind or ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Tractors —Continued Mobilizing the farm machinery. AL Dahl. il Sei Am 117:274 О
13 '17 Motor tractors and trailers. ..."
5. Belt Conveyors and Belt Elevators by Frederic Valerius Hetzel (1922)
"trailers.—Large trippers for heavily loaded belts are sometimes made with trailers
which are rear extensions of the tripper frame carrying several FIG. 160. ..."
6. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... My Night Adventure at Fort Lincoln — The Blacksmith's Death — Shot Dead in
his Tracks — The Prince of trailers—A Thrilling Incident — My Experience with ..."
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