catadrome
English
editEtymology
editAncient Greek κατάδρομος (katádromos) from κατά (katá, “down”) + δρόμος (drómos, “course, running”).
Noun
editcatadrome (plural catadromes)
- A racecourse.
- (engineering) A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “catadrome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
editAdjective
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