railroad truck vs snout

railroad truck

noun
  • A chassis or framework-like structure underneath a railroad car to which wheel axles (and, hence, wheels) are attached through bearings. (Not to be confused with railway truck or railtruck, which are British English synonyms of railroad car) 

snout

noun
  • The front of the prow of a ship or boat. 

  • The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum. 

  • The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc. 

  • The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs. 

  • Tobacco; cigarettes. 

  • The terminus of a glacier. 

  • A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads. 

  • A person's nose. 

  • A police informer. 

  • The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum. 

verb
  • To furnish with a nozzle or point. 

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