Definition of Bogies. Meaning of Bogies. Synonyms of Bogies

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Definition of Bogies

bogie
Bogey Bo"gey, n.; pl. Bogeys. [Also bogie.] 1. A goblin; a bugbear. I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy. --Wm. Black. 2. (Golf) A given score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; -- said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey.
Bogie
Bogie Bo"gie, n. [A dialectic word. N. of Eng. & Scot.] A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.

Meaning of Bogies from wikipedia

- have more axles per bogie. Heavy-duty cars may have more than two bogies using span bolsters to equalize the load and connect the bogies to the cars. Usually...
- Surname Bogie (surname) Bogie, an attendant of Jack in the Green, a character in traditional English May Day parades and other May celebrations Bogies, a recurring...
- out bogie exchange (to change their gauge) is to lift the wagons off one of their sets of bogies and replace them back on another, new set of bogies. This...
- handicapped level entry making a 3-car unit with two Jacobs bogies. Vehicles featuring Jacobs bogies include the British Rail class 370, Alstom-made TGV, KTX-I...
- quad-voltage locomotive, requiring a C'C' layout with three axle bogies. Monomotor bogies are widely used in France, for designs by Alstom. They were a particular...
- Bogie is the surname of: Cam Bogie (1915-2006), Australian rules footballer David Bogie (born 1987), British rally driver Ian Bogie (born 1967), British...
- flatbed railway car that runs on bogies and has baulks of timber (bolsters) fixed across the bed, see Bogie bolster wagon. Bogie (disambiguation) Bolster (disambiguation)...
- front wheels attach to the bogies, while on the MER and MSL rovers the front wheels attach to the rockers. The rocker-bogie design is unsprung and uses...
- characters from the comics. These include Pocket Bogies, Giant Bogies and Bogie Key Chains. Bogies Battle Cards is a trump trading card game featuring...
- Schwartzkopff-Eckhardt II bogies or Luttermöller axle drives. The tender locomotives of classes 41 and 45 only had a Krauss-Helmholtz bogie at the front; the...