slip-tongue wheels
- noun
- Archaic
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- The museum displayed a set of restored slip-tongue wheels as part of its logging history exhibit.
Examples
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In the late 1800s, loggers often transported timber using slip-tongue wheels to keep the logs from dragging.
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Before modern machinery, crews relied on slip-tongue wheels to haul heavy logs out of dense forests.
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The slip-tongue wheels made transporting logs much easier.
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In the 19th century, slip-tongue wheels revolutionized logging.
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In the late 1800s, loggers often transported timber using slip-tongue wheels to keep the logs from dragging.
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Before modern machinery, crews relied on slip-tongue wheels to haul heavy logs out of dense forests.
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The museum displayed a set of restored slip-tongue wheels as part of its logging history exhibit.
Synonyms
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A heavy vehicle that drags logs over rough ground to a loading area
An old logging machine that lifts one end of a log with hanging tongs between its wheels
A historical logging machine that lifts one end of a log with hanging tongs between wheels to move it
Surface Forms
Morphology
slip-tongue + wheel
The compound contains a specialized hyphenated element 'slip-tongue' that is not attested in the provided dictionary entry, and the historical technical sense ('dangling tongs that lift a log') is not predictable from the literal meanings of 'slip'/'tongue' plus 'wheel'. This is a domain-specific, archaic construction whose overall meaning would be opaque to a B1 learner even if they knew the word 'wheel'.
Etymology
Slip-tongue wheels comes from old logging gear: wheels with loose wooden tongues that could 'slip' under the end of a log to 'lift' it off the ground so it would not 'drag'. That's why the name refers to a device used to 'lift' and move heavy logs more easily.