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road-railers

road-railers is the plural of road-railer.

Meaning of road-railer

Noun

road-railer (plural road-railers)

  1. A road vehicle that can be used on railway track by lowering retractable railway wheels on to the track at a suitable level place.
    • "I had to stand by for half an hour, which is a long time when you're dealing with an incident, until we could get a road-railer up to decant the passengers, get them to the nearest access point and into taxis, so we could deal with the incident.2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 40

Questions about road-railers

What is road-railers the plural of?
Road-railers is the plural of road-railer.

Words near road-railers in the dictionary

  1. road-raging
  2. road-rail
  3. road-rail vehicle
  4. road-rail vehicles
  5. road-railer
  6. road-railers
  7. road-roller
  8. road-rollers
  9. road-test
  10. road-tested
  11. road-testing

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