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axle-driven

axle-driven adjective: driven from a revolving axle, such as on a moving rail vehicle.

Adjective

axle-driven (not comparable)

  1. Driven from a revolving axle, such as on a moving rail vehicle.
    • The lighting equipment consists of [an] axle-driven shunt field dynamo with a regulator combining all the necessary switch gear as a unit, and a lead acid accumulator cell battery housed in two boxes on the underframe.1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 328
    • Another type has electric air circulation, supplied by axle-driven generators.1961 November, Hamilton Ellis, “The Eastern Region helps the frozen foods boom”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683

Questions about axle-driven

What does axle-driven mean?
Axle-driven means driven from a revolving axle, such as on a moving rail vehicle.
What part of speech is axle-driven?
Axle-driven is an adjective.

Words near axle-driven in the dictionary

  1. axle tooth
  2. axle weight
  3. axle weights
  4. axle-box
  5. axle-boxes
  6. axle-driven
  7. axle-hung
  8. axle-tree
  9. axlebox
  10. axleboxes
  11. axled

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