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rolling stock
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rolling \Roll"ing\, a. Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball. Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair. Having gradual, ...
Wikipedia
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Rolling Stock was a newspaper of ideas and a chronicler of the 1980s published in Boulder , Colorado by Ed Dorn and Jennifer Dunbar Dorn . The paper had a regional motif, but featured correspondents covering the world, including Woody Haut on Labor, John ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A £300 million contract to build rolling stock has been won by GEC-Alsthom. ▪ A new engineering base is being established at Churston where rolling stock will be maintained and serviced. ▪ But engineers think that the kind of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context railroads uncountable collectively English) all vehicles that move on a railway, powered or unpowered. 2 (context countable less common English) any such vehicle.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. collection of wheeled vehicles owned by a railroad or motor carrier
Usage examples of rolling stock.
The Florilegium now had more rolling stock than it had adult males for drivers, because Fitzfarris was always out ahead of the show and Hannibal, at the rear of it, had to guide both Peggy and the horse drawing the bull-pup cannon.
Along the entire route of several hundred miles, the tracks had been cleared and all the available rolling stock in the Southeast had been assembled for the movement.
Initially it will use converted pickup trucks for engines and whatever can be improvised for rolling stock.
In America, the rolling stock can be as wide as 10'10' and as high as 16'2.
In these man-made caverns were three hundred T-55 tanks, built in the mid-1960s and never used, but rather stored here to defend against an invasion from China, along with a further two hundred BTR-60 wheeled infantry carriers, plus all the other rolling stock for a Soviet-pattern tank division.
The Mercedes people were intelligent enough to realize this and so they had plowed their big black-and-yellow slab of concrete through a few million dollars' worth of rolling stock, gone over the creepily silent high-speed films, and made a few changes.