close-coupled
/kləʊsˈkʌpəld/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Great Northern Railway outer-suburban passenger train of close-coupled four-wheel coaches, hauled by Ivatt 4-4-2 tank locomotive painted grey with white lettering in 1915, as a wartime measure"
- "Actually, as built, these were the motive power ends of two passenger railcars, each being close-coupled to a driving trailer which had only one axle at the locomotive end and a bogie at the other."
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /kləʊsˈkʌpəld/