The story
- German · derived fromRolle“roll”
- English todayRollbock
From German Rolle (“roll”) + Bock (“buck”); the term originated in Switzerland in the early 1880s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rollbock
Today it means: A bogie used to carry a railway carriage on a line of different gauge to the one it was built for, usually a narrower gauge. Full definition →
German Rolle