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curtain-siders

curtain-siders is the plural of curtain-sider.

Meaning of curtain-sider

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

Questions about curtain-siders

What is curtain-siders the plural of?
Curtain-siders is the plural of curtain-sider.

Words near curtain-siders in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curtain-siders (page history and authors); curtain-sider (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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