snow chain
snow chain · snow chains
Schneekette
A chain put on a wheel of a vehicle to give it more tractionA chain put on a wheel of a vehicle to give it more traction.
» He had no snow chains with him.
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1 sensesA chain put on a wheel of a vehicle to give it more traction.
Schneekette
chain attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow
Examples
3 sentencesHe had no snow chains with him.
I don't have snow chains for my car.
The pass is closed to vehicles without snow chains.
deDer Pass ist für Fahrzeuge ohne Schneeketten gesperrt. — al_ex_an_der
Translations
4 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 1
a chain put on a wheel of a vehicle to give it more traction:
Forms
plural: snow chains| Singular | snow chain |
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regular
Synonyms
2 synonymstire chaintyre chain
Close in meaning
- chain attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow:tire chain
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.