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single-wheelers

single-wheelers is the plural of single-wheeler.

Meaning of single-wheeler

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

Questions about single-wheelers

What is single-wheelers the plural of?
Single-wheelers is the plural of single-wheeler.

Words near single-wheelers in the dictionary

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

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