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staybolted

staybolted adjective: fitted with staybolts.

Adjective

staybolted (not comparable)

  1. (boiler etc.) fitted with staybolts.
    • Kansas City Southern's 10 J-class 2-10-4's of 1937 had the first staybolted boilers with 310 pounds pressure.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.
    • 7.2.6 Problems of the Staybolted Firebox: The firebox was the most problematical of the component structures of the steam locomotive. It required endless maintenance.2018, The American Steam Locomotive in the Twentieth Century, by Tom Morrison, McFarland, →ISBN

Origin of staybolted

From staybolt + -ed.

Questions about staybolted

What does staybolted mean?
Staybolted means fitted with staybolts.
What part of speech is staybolted?
Staybolted is an adjective.

Words near staybolted in the dictionary

  1. stayability
  2. stayable
  3. stayaway
  4. stayaways
  5. staybolt
  6. staybolted
  7. staybolts
  8. staycate
  9. staycated
  10. staycates
  11. staycating

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