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rolling stock

noun

  1. the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.


rolling stock

noun

  1. the wheeled vehicles collectively used on a railway, including the locomotives, passenger coaches, freight wagons, guard's vans, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rolling stock1

First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences

It was the rolling stock that demanded the most urgent attention—engines, carriages and wagons and especially carriages.

Hospital trains they could improvise out of what rolling stock remained to them.

The rolling stock at that time was as light as the signals were haphazard.

Stocks of stores, fittings and plant shall be handed over under the same conditions as the rolling-stock.

Here was a great deal of rolling-stock—scores of cars and many engines.

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