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buffer up

buffer up verb: to move (a rail vehicle) so that its buffers are touching the buffers of another rail vehicle.

Verb

buffer up (third-person singular simple present buffers up, present participle buffering up, simple past and past participle buffered up)

  1. (transitive) To move (a rail vehicle) so that its buffers are touching the buffers of another rail vehicle.
    • The Type 3 will propel the unit on the return working to Bournemouth Central, where it will be buffered up to the remaining units for the journey back to Waterloo.1964 November, “The Electrification of BR: 5 The Southern's Bournemouth scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 321

Forms of buffer up

third-person singular presentbuffers up
present participlebuffering up
past participlebuffered up
pastbuffered up

Questions about buffer up

What does buffer up mean?
Buffer up means to move (a rail vehicle) so that its buffers are touching the buffers of another rail vehicle.
What part of speech is buffer up?
Buffer up is a verb.
What is the past tense of buffer up?
The past tense of buffer up is buffered up.

Words near buffer up in the dictionary

  1. buffer stock
  2. buffer stocks
  3. buffer stop
  4. buffer stops
  5. buffer underrun
  6. buffer up
  7. buffer zone
  8. buffer zones
  9. bufferable
  10. bufferbeam
  11. bufferbeams

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