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snow-shed
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a sloping shed or roof, now usually of reinforced concrete, constructed over a railway track or a highway so that avalanches may pass harmlessly overhead without blocking the way or endangering lives.
Quotations
1872
On each side of the valley are mountains that act as natural snow-sheds.
1887
These snow-sheds are huge wooden constructions, with a slanting lean-to roof, designed to shoot the avalanches over the track. . . .
1964
The chief defences are the snow sheds (which carry slides harmlessly over the road in the Illecilliwaet Valley) and the avalanche warning system.