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curtainsider

curtainsider is the alternative form 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

Forms of curtainsider

pluralcurtainsiders

Origin of curtainsider

From curtain + sider.

Questions about curtainsider

What is curtainsider the alternative form of?
Curtainsider is the alternative form of curtain-sider.

Words near curtainsider in the dictionary

  1. curtainless
  2. curtainlessness
  3. curtainlike
  4. curtains
  5. curtains off
  6. curtainsider
  7. curtainsiders
  8. curtainwall
  9. curtainwalls
  10. curtainwise
  11. curtal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: curtainsider (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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