Examples of cowcatcher

• As many wounded as possible were piled on to the engine, standing in the cab, lying on the tender, or clinging to the cowcatcher. 

• Freight-trains passed southward, blue with men in the cars, and on top of the cars, and in the caboose, and on the cowcatcher, always going south and never north. 

• I could only place stones on the line, but these were swept away by the cowcatcher, and so the train passed in safety. 

• The engine itself had most of the cowcatcher torn off and the headlight smashed. 

• Then I approached a station where the fireman always went out to the cowcatcher, opened the oil-cup on the steam-chest, and poured oil in. 

• A steel pipe or boiler tube pilot replaced the original wooden type of cowcatcher.

• A deflective shield affixed to the front of a locomotive to protect its wheels from on-track debris; archaically called a cowcatcher. 2.

• In some countries it is also called cowcatcher or cattle catcher.