| 单词 | bridge train |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbridge train bridge train n. Military (now chiefly historical) a unit or company of engineers equipped for bridge-building, carrying all the materials and apparatus for constructing temporary bridges to transport troops across rivers. ΚΠ a1821 J. Rapp Mem. of Gen. Count Rapp (1823) xxxvi. 244 The fugitives had joined Tchitschagoff, and covered the right bridge of the Beresina. Napoleon was uneasy: we had neither a bridge-train nor subsistence. 1885 Cent. Mag. May 137/2 Wagons, ambulances, bridge trains, camp equipage, hospital stores, and all the vast impedimenta and material indispensable for an army in the field, were to be manufactured. 1985 A. M. Beck et al. Corps of Engineers vii. 139/2 The bridge train carried 100 feet of double-single Bailey plus material for a seventy-foot launching nose, and the bridge unit had enough extra parts for two eighty-foot Class 40 bridges. < as lemmas |
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