underframe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The supporting structure of a piece of furniture, a vehicle, etc.
Example Sentences
- "The main fuel tank is slung from the underframe midway between the two bogies, and its capacity of 420 gal. supplies both the main engine and the train heating boiler."
- "Each half-section of the battery weighs about eight tons, and the two underframes had to be strengthened to take this weight."
- "Nos. 5300/1, which were finished in January, are the Southern's first "4-EPB" units to the standard B.R. design on 63 ft. 5 in. underframes, as against the S.R. 62 ft.; [...]."
- "The Liner train wagon is a simple underframe on bogies, with coned location points that engage recesses in the container bases."