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container crane

container crane noun: a kind of dockside gantry crane found at container terminals for loading and unloading intermodal containers from container ships.

Noun

container crane (plural container cranes)

  1. A kind of dockside gantry crane found at container terminals for loading and unloading intermodal containers from container ships.

Forms of container crane

pluralcontainer cranes

Questions about container crane

What does container crane mean?
Container crane means a kind of dockside gantry crane found at container terminals for loading and unloading intermodal containers from container ships.
What part of speech is container crane?
Container crane is a noun.
What is the plural of container crane?
The plural of container crane is container cranes.

Words near container crane in the dictionary

  1. contained multitudes
  2. contained oneself
  3. containee
  4. containees
  5. container
  6. container crane
  7. container cranes
  8. container deposit
  9. container deposits
  10. container flat
  11. container flats

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