crawlerway

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noun

A roadway for the use of crawlers (tracked vehicles).

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nouncrawlerway (plural crawlerways)

plural crawlerways

  1. space flight; space industry; space flight; space industryA roadway for the use of crawlers (tracked vehicles).

    Inch by inch, the powerful Crawler-Transporter carries the mobile launcher and the Saturn V down the crawlerway, pulverizing stones under its heavy burden.

    2020, John Rocco, How We Got to the Moon, page 196
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    An interesting assignment that I have had within the past years and that I believe can be directly related to the in-situ measurement of soils is the instrumentation of the foundation of the crawlerways at the Kennedy Space Center.

    1970, American Society of Civil Engineers. Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Dept. of Materials Engineering, Observational methods in soil and rock engineering, page 52

Origin

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