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axleload

axleload is the alternative form of axle load.

Meaning of axle load

Noun

axle load (plural axle loads)

  1. the total weight, including load carried, transferred by one axle and its wheels to a road or railway surface. This is especially important in relation to what weight road and railway structures can carry, bridges in particular.
    • To keep the axle load within a 28-ton maximum, two eight-wheel bogies are employed, all axles of which are motorised.1963 August, “New 5,000 H.P.-Plus Diesels for U.S. Railroads”, in Modern Railways, page 127

Forms of axleload

pluralaxleloads

Origin of axleload

From axle + load.

Questions about axleload

What is axleload the alternative form of?
Axleload is the alternative form of axle load.

Words near axleload in the dictionary

  1. axleboxes
  2. axled
  3. axleguard
  4. axleguards
  5. axleless
  6. axleload
  7. axleloads
  8. axlepin
  9. axlepins
  10. Axler
  11. axlerod

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Adapted from Wiktionary: axleload (page history and authors); axle load (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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