0 a strong metal frame attached to the front of a train that pushes objects off the track as the train moves forward
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.
