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wheelflat

wheelflat is the alternative form 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

Forms of wheelflat

pluralwheelflats

Origin of wheelflat

From wheel + flat.

Questions about wheelflat

What is wheelflat the alternative form of?
Wheelflat is the alternative form of wheel flat.

Words near wheelflat in the dictionary

  1. Wheelers Hill
  2. Wheelerwood
  3. wheelery
  4. wheelest
  5. wheeleth
  6. wheelflat
  7. wheelflats
  8. wheelful
  9. wheelfuls
  10. wheelgun
  11. wheelguns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheelflat (page history and authors); wheel flat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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