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buffering up

buffering up is the present participle and gerund of buffer up.

Meaning of buffer up

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

Questions about buffering up

What is buffering up the present participle and gerund of?
Buffering up is the present participle and gerund of buffer up.

Words near buffering up in the dictionary

  1. bufferful
  2. bufferfuls
  3. bufferhead
  4. bufferheads
  5. buffering
  6. buffering up
  7. bufferings
  8. bufferize
  9. bufferized
  10. bufferizes
  11. bufferizing

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