snowshed
[snoh-shed]
- a structure, as over an extent of railroad track on a mountainside, for protection against snow.
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Both the firemen on Number Six have went out from gas—in the snowshed.
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Houston followed the figure toward the snowshed on the hill.
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The grip of at least one snowshed was broken; but there remained twenty more—and the Death Trail—beyond!
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Only one snowshed remained, with but a feeble bulwark of drifts before it.
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snowshed
- a shelter built over an exposed section of railway track to prevent its blockage by snow
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