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tamping machines

tamping machines is the plural of tamping machine.

Meaning of tamping machine

Noun

tamping machine (plural tamping machines)

  1. A self-propelled rail-mounted machine used to pack or tamp ballast under railway tracks; a ballast tamper.
    • By 1958, there will be available for service 100 ballast tamping machines and 16 ballast cleaning machines.1957 January, “Modernisation Plan Progress”, in Railway Magazine, page 15

Questions about tamping machines

What is tamping machines the plural of?
Tamping machines is the plural of tamping machine.

Words near tamping machines in the dictionary

  1. tamping
  2. tamping down
  3. tamping iron
  4. tamping irons
  5. tamping machine
  6. tamping machines
  7. tampings
  8. tampion
  9. tampioned
  10. tampions
  11. Tamplin

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