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truck bolster

truck bolster

noun Railroads.
the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
Compare body bolster.


Origin:
1890–95
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Truck bolster is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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