traction load

noun

1. geology the solid material that is carried along the bed of a river

Example Sentences

Hence most urban stations now supply current not only for electric lighting but for running the town tramway system, and this traction load being chiefly a daylight load serves to keep the plant employed and remunerative.

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After that we had to unload a traction load of coal in one-cwt. sacks, and oh, they were dirty and awkward too.

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The traction load was taken at 20 per cent. of the live load, and a wind pressure of 500 pounds per lineal foot was assumed over the whole structure.

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