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wheeltappers

wheeltappers is the plural of wheeltapper.

Meaning of wheeltapper

Noun

wheeltapper (plural wheeltappers)

  1. (UK, historical) A railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.

Questions about wheeltappers

What is wheeltappers the plural of?
Wheeltappers is the plural of wheeltapper.

Words near wheeltappers in the dictionary

  1. wheelsuckers
  2. wheelsucking
  3. wheelsucks
  4. wheelswarf
  5. wheeltapper
  6. wheeltappers
  7. wheeltapping
  8. wheelway
  9. wheelways
  10. wheelwell
  11. wheelwells

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