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curtain-sider

curtain-sider noun: a freight vehicle, including semi-trailers, with sides that open and close like a curtain, to facilitate loading and unloading.

curtain-sider: a freight vehicle, including semi-trailers, with sides that open and close like a curtain, to...
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Noun

curtain-sider (plural curtain-siders)

  1. A freight vehicle, including semi-trailers, with sides that open and close like a curtain, to facilitate loading and unloading.
    • Bailey adds: "Curtain-siders are a third of our business. That is an untapped market for rail. […] You could see trains coming out of the Southampton terminal with 40 to 60 boxes, and the rest filled with curtain siders to East Midlands Gateway, then aggregating them from there to the North.2023 April 19, Paul Clifton, “Rail is clearly key to our future”, in RAIL, number 981, page 32

Forms of curtain-sider

pluralcurtain-siders
alternative formcurtainsider

Questions about curtain-sider

What does curtain-sider mean?
Curtain-sider means a freight vehicle, including semi-trailers, with sides that open and close like a curtain, to facilitate loading and unloading.
What part of speech is curtain-sider?
Curtain-sider is a noun.
What is the plural of curtain-sider?
The plural of curtain-sider is curtain-siders.

Words near curtain-sider in the dictionary

  1. curtain wall
  2. curtain walls
  3. curtain-raise
  4. curtain-raiser
  5. curtain-raisers
  6. curtain-sider
  7. curtain-siders
  8. curtain-twitcher
  9. curtain-twitchers
  10. curtained
  11. curtained off

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