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wheel shop

wheel shop noun: a workshop where wheels of locomotives and other railway vehicles are maintained.

Noun

wheel shop (plural wheel shops)

  1. A workshop where wheels of locomotives and other railway vehicles are maintained.
    • In the wheel shop a wheel-welding machine, the first of its kind on British Railways when it was installed in 1955, uses a "Lincoln" submerged arc welding head to build up the diameter of old wheel centres (from the 1880 to 1910 era).
    • [p162] Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and functions of shops [...] Wheel Shop: Preparation and assembly of wheel and axle sets.1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 159, 162

Forms of wheel shop

pluralwheel shops

Questions about wheel shop

What does wheel shop mean?
Wheel shop means a workshop where wheels of locomotives and other railway vehicles are maintained.
What part of speech is wheel shop?
Wheel shop is a noun.
What is the plural of wheel shop?
The plural of wheel shop is wheel shops.

Words near wheel shop in the dictionary

  1. wheel plough
  2. wheel ploughs
  3. wheel press
  4. wheel presses
  5. wheel round
  6. wheel shop
  7. wheel shops
  8. wheel slide
  9. wheel spider
  10. wheel spiders
  11. wheel spinner

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