snow chain

1. 1.

   chain attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow

   Synonymstire chain

   Broaderchain

Questions about snow chain

What does snow chain mean?

snow chain means "chain attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow".

What is another word for snow chain?

Close synonyms include tire chain. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is snow chain a common word?

snow chain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.