lifting shop
lifting shop noun: a workshop where vehicles are lifted off their bogies for maintenance work to be carried out.
Noun
lifting shop (plural lifting shops)
- A workshop where vehicles are lifted off their bogies for maintenance work to be carried out.
- The new depot, on which work started in May, 1956, has three reception roads leading to 13 sidings capable of taking 25 trains, a 450 ft.-long car examination shed with nine roads, a lifting shop with two roads and three permanent way sidings.1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, in Trains Illustrated, page 527
Forms of lifting shop
| plural | lifting shops |
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Questions about lifting shop
- What does lifting shop mean?
- Lifting shop means a workshop where vehicles are lifted off their bogies for maintenance work to be carried out.
- What part of speech is lifting shop?
- Lifting shop is a noun.
- What is the plural of lifting shop?
- The plural of lifting shop is lifting shops.
Words near lifting shop in the dictionary
- lifting oneself up by one's boot-tags
- lifting oneself up by one's bootstraps
- lifting oneself up by one's own boot-tags
- lifting oneself up by one's own bootstraps
- lifting oneself up by one's own waistbands
- lifting shop
- lifting shops
- lifting someone's spirits
- lifting span
- lifting spans
- lifting the bar
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