Meanings
- not comparableHaving three heads.
triple-headed eagle
Synonyms: three-headed, tricephalic, tricephalous
- not comparablerail transportOf a train, hauled by three locomotives.
1 more example
Some further pictures of his are reproduced at the head of this article and on page 557. One shows an example of a triple-headed train attacking the gradient, and results from one of the latest 2-10-4 "Selkirk" type locomotives, which can handle 1,000-ton trains up the grade, having been diverted to another duty ; as a heavy eastbound train (the Dominion) has had to leave Field with a Calgary Pacific as train engine, the assistance of a 2-10-2 has been insufficient, and a 2-8-2 has been added, making three engines in all.
1940 October, “Field Hill on the C.P.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 530
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving three heads.
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