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single-wheeler

single-wheeler noun: a steam locomotive with a single driving axle.

single-wheeler: a steam locomotive with a single driving axle
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Noun

single-wheeler (plural single-wheelers)

  1. A steam locomotive with a single driving axle.
    • It links the time when single-wheelers were still being used on crack expresses to our modern streamline age, when up to the outbreak of war developments both at home and overseas were following thick and fast upon each other.1941 February, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part 1—G.N.R. 1911-1914”, in Railway Magazine, page 77

Forms of single-wheeler

pluralsingle-wheelers

Questions about single-wheeler

What does single-wheeler mean?
Single-wheeler means a steam locomotive with a single driving axle.
What part of speech is single-wheeler?
Single-wheeler is a noun.
What is the plural of single-wheeler?
The plural of single-wheeler is single-wheelers.

Words near single-wheeler in the dictionary

  1. single-use
  2. single-user
  3. single-valued
  4. single-valued function
  5. single-valued functions
  6. single-wheeler
  7. single-wheelers
  8. single-wide
  9. single-wides
  10. single-word
  11. singlecast

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