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broad gauge

1

noun

, Railroads.
  1. gauge15


broad-gauge

2
or broad-gauged

[ brawd-geyj ]

adjective

  1. Railroads. of or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge:

    broad-gauge rolling stock.

  2. of wide scope, application, or experience:

    broad-gauge efforts to improve the health of our citizens.

broad gauge

noun

  1. a railway track with a greater distance between the lines than the standard gauge of 56 1 2 inches (about 1.44 metres) used now by most mainline railway systems
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or denoting a railway having this track
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of broad gauge1

First recorded in 1835–45

Origin of broad gauge2

1835–45, for an earlier sense
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Example Sentences

The extensions of the broad-gauge companies are, it is estimated, to cost 9,000 per mile for track and stations alone.

At Mladinovatz all this mass of commissariat and suffering must needs be transferred from or to the broad-gauge line.

Little notion had she of the broad gauge those questions would run upon.

Locomotive and atmospheric lines, broad-gauge and narrow-gauge lines, were granted without hesitation.

For variety, I took the broad-gauge road, but found little difference in the country through which we passed.

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