beeching
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname from Old English.
name
The Beeching Axe; the closure of many branch lines in the UK in the mid-20th century.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "Richard Beeching, wielder of the Beeching Axe."
- "Nationally, there were relatively few closures after Beeching and more recently some lines have reopened to passenger traffic, such as the Cannock Chase line, which for a number of years had been freight only."
- "Like the ones on the Camp Hill line, the new stations are being built on the same site as the original platforms, both of which closed in the Beeching era in the 1960s."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: bæc
Usage
- British usage