narrow-gage

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adjective

variants or less commonly narrow-gaged

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1

: using track of less than standard gage

a narrow-gage railway

also : of a gage less than standard

narrow-gage track

2

usually narrow-gauge : restricted, provincial, petty

narrow-gauge views

the stereotypes of narrow-gauge business standards

—Lewis Mumford

narrow-gage

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noun

: a narrow-gage railway, track, locomotive, or car

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Etymology

Noun

¹narrow-gage

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