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cowcatcher

device mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles from the track
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cowcatcher

Summary

cowcatcher ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (192 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cowcatcher's image is recorded as 1911 Baldwin 2-8-0 Steam at Texas Transportation museum 3.jpg[2].
  • cowcatcher's subclass of is recorded as appliance[3].
  • cowcatcher's part of is recorded as rolling stock[4].
  • cowcatcher's Commons category is recorded as Cowcatchers[5].
  • cowcatcher's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01_f9v[6].
  • cowcatcher's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 77688971[7].
  • cowcatcher's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 03333146-n[8].

Why It Matters

cowcatcher ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (192 views/month).[1] cowcatcher has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] cowcatcher is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). cowcatcher. Retrieved April 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/cowcatcher
MLA “cowcatcher.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 11 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/cowcatcher.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cowcatcher_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{cowcatcher}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cowcatcher}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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