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contact shoes

contact shoes is the plural of contact shoe.

Meaning of contact shoe

Noun

contact shoe (plural contact shoes)

  1. A current collector on an electric train which is in contact with the live rail.
  2. A part of a pantograph on a train or tram which, when raised, maintains contact with an overhead electric wire.
    • The leading locomotive of the double-headed 3.5 p.m. Manchester Piccadilly-Plymouth shed the contact shoe of its pantograph, which bounced back along the roof and hit the pantograph of the second locomotive, which thereupon lost its contact shoe also.1963 January, “Motive power miscellany”, in Modern Railways, page 64

Questions about contact shoes

What is contact shoes the plural of?
Contact shoes is the plural of contact shoe.

Words near contact shoes in the dictionary

  1. contact prints
  2. contact process
  3. contact sheet
  4. contact sheets
  5. contact shoe
  6. contact shoes
  7. contact shot
  8. contact shots
  9. contact sport
  10. contact sports
  11. contact time

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