close-coupled
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kləʊsˈkʌpəld/
Adjective
close-coupled (not comparable)
- Attached, coupled or fixed close together.
- 1950 April, R. A. H. Weight, “They Passed by My Window”, in Railway Magazine, page 255, photo caption:
- 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
- 1961 February, “Letters to the Editor: Swiss railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 126:
- 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.
References
- “close-coupled”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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