broad gage
- a variation of broad gauge.
Example Sentences
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C is a broad gage, with a hollow blade, and a curved cutting edge, ground with a taper on the rounded side only.
From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by Zerbe, James Slough
Fansy me holding up moughs, tippits, cloaks, and baskits, and James Hangelo rawring still like mad, and pretending to shuperintend the carrying over of our luggage from the broad gage to the narrow gage.
From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace
The car was open at the front end and its two rear wheels rode on the broad gage rails and its two forward wheels rode on the narrow gage rails.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
The rail is the broad gage; and we hardly felt the motion, so excellent is the road.
From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by Choules, J.O.
