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loading bank

loading bank noun: a platform, often with a ramp at one or both ends, provided in a railway goods yard for the purpose of loading and unloading goods wagons.

loading bank: a platform, often with a ramp at one or both ends, provided in a railway goods yard for the purpose...
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Noun

loading bank (plural loading banks)

  1. (UK, dated) A platform, often with a ramp at one or both ends, provided in a railway goods yard for the purpose of loading and unloading goods wagons.

Forms of loading bank

pluralloading banks

Questions about loading bank

What does loading bank mean?
Loading bank means a platform, often with a ramp at one or both ends, provided in a railway goods yard for the purpose of loading and unloading goods wagons.
What part of speech is loading bank?
Loading bank is a noun.
What is the plural of loading bank?
The plural of loading bank is loading banks.

Words near loading bank in the dictionary

  1. Loadholts
  2. loadie
  3. loadies
  4. loadin'
  5. loading
  6. loading bank
  7. loading banks
  8. loading bay
  9. loading bays
  10. loading coil
  11. loading coils

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