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flangeless

flangeless adjective: without a flange.

Adjective

flangeless (not comparable)

  1. Without a flange.
    • Immediately outside the rails of 3-ft. gauge, on which the ordinary cars run, are laid smaller rails ⅞ in. lower ; on these run the flangeless wagon wheels, kept in position by the higher rails, which thus act as check rails ; [...].1940 May, H. Fayle, “The Bessbrook & Newry Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 291
    • Ivatt was represented by 4-2-2 No. 262, his first 4-4-0, No. 400, and 2-2-2 No. 92, which had the flangeless driving wheels from Sturrock's famous 4-2-2 No. 215.1961 July, C. P. Walker, P. H. V. Banyard, “Leicester's Belgrave Road branch lives another year”, in Trains Illustrated, page 410

Origin of flangeless

From flange + -less.

Questions about flangeless

What does flangeless mean?
Flangeless means without a flange.
What part of speech is flangeless?
Flangeless is an adjective.

Words near flangeless in the dictionary

  1. flange oilers
  2. flangeable
  3. flanged
  4. flanged T rail
  5. flanged T rails
  6. flangeless
  7. flangelike
  8. flanger
  9. flangers
  10. flanges
  11. flangetail

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