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Meaning of contact shoe | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  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.

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

contact shot contact sport contact time contact tracer contact tracing contact wire

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