tamping machine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A self-propelled rail-mounted machine used to pack or tamp ballast under railway tracks; a ballast tamper.
Example Sentences
- "By 1958, there will be available for service 100 ballast tamping machines and 16 ballast cleaning machines."
- "The BRB has ordered from Plasser & Theurer, through Plasser Railway Machinery (GB) Ltd., a total of 27 Plassermatic VKR-05-E hydraulic track levelling and tamping machines with electronic-beam levelling units."
- "A near-miss between a tamping machine and a passenger train at Balham Junction on April 20 2019 was caused by a lack of information, lack of querying instructions and poor safety-critical communications."