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all-welded

all-welded adjective: constructed with only welded joints, without bolts or rivets being used.

Adjective

all-welded (not comparable)

  1. Constructed with only welded joints, without bolts or rivets being used.
    • The two new steel girders to carry this track—which are of all-welded construction, and with diaphragms fixed in position weighed in all 26 tons—were next brought forward and placed in position.1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 708
    • In accordance with S.R. practice since the days of Bulleid, the design of components employs welding extensively - in fact the smokebox, motion and slide bar brackets and frame stretchers are all-welded structures.
    • [p163] The most ambitious of these items were undoubtedly the all-welded boilers for the short-lived and much-discussed "Leader" 0-6-6-0s; [...]1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 160, 163

Origin of all-welded

From all- + welded.

Questions about all-welded

What does all-welded mean?
All-welded means constructed with only welded joints, without bolts or rivets being used.
What part of speech is all-welded?
All-welded is an adjective.

Words near all-welded in the dictionary

  1. all-weather friends
  2. all-weather tire
  3. all-weather tires
  4. all-weather tyre
  5. all-weather tyres
  6. all-welded
  7. all-wheel
  8. all-wheel drive
  9. all-wheel drives
  10. all-woman
  11. all-year-round

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