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wheel flats

wheel flats is the plural of wheel flat.

Meaning of wheel flat

Noun

wheel flat (plural wheel flats)

  1. A flat spot on a railway wheel caused when a wheel, or both wheels on the same axle, in a moving train stop rotating.
    • Severe wheel flats caused by locking brakes led to the derailment of DB Cargo UK's 2152 Robeston-Theale oil train near Llangennech, in South Wales, on August 26.2020 October 7, “Network News: Severe wheel flats caused Welsh oil train derailment”, in Rail, page 14

Questions about wheel flats

What is wheel flats the plural of?
Wheel flats is the plural of wheel flat.

Words near wheel flats in the dictionary

  1. wheel dog
  2. wheel dogs
  3. wheel fiddle
  4. wheel fiddles
  5. wheel flat
  6. wheel flats
  7. wheel hoe
  8. wheel hoes
  9. wheel horse
  10. wheel horses
  11. wheel house

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