road-train

[ rohd-treyn ]

/ ˈroʊdˌtreɪn /

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noun

a convoy of motor vehicles.

a fleet of motor vehicles traveling together in line.

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Origin of road-train

First recorded in 1955–60

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So I drove around the corner to the trailhead of the logging road that led back to the crash site.
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As he drove me back to the logging road, Frank told me about the area in his deep voice.
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From there we took the train to Nice, France, but the French border control caught us and sent us back to Italy.
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Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.
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What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
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His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
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She set off down Trafalgar Road in the mist and the rain, glad that she had been compelled to walk.
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The first rail road opened in Brazil, the emperor and empress being present at the inauguration.
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British Dictionary definitions for road-train

road train

noun

Australian a line of linked trailers pulled by a truck, used for transporting stock, etc

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