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steeple cabs

steeple cabs is the plural of steeple cab.

Meaning of steeple cab

Noun

steeple cab (plural steeple cabs)

  1. A centrally placed cab on some early electric locomotives.
    • All main line work is carried out by the Type 1s, whose principal design fault is offside "blindness", due to the position of the driving cab behind a long, high nose; a steeple cab would obviously be preferable.1962 October, M.J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, page 265
  2. An electric locomotive with such a cab.

Questions about steeple cabs

What is steeple cabs the plural of?
Steeple cabs is the plural of steeple cab.

Words near steeple cabs in the dictionary

  1. steeple
  2. Steeple Aston
  3. Steeple Barton
  4. Steeple Bumpstead
  5. steeple cab
  6. steeple cabs
  7. Steeple Claydon
  8. steeple engine
  9. steeple engines
  10. Steeple Flat
  11. steeple hat

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