buffer up

verb

To move (a rail vehicle) so that its buffers are touching the buffers of another rail vehicle.

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Meanings

verbbuffer up (third-person singular simple present buffers up, present participle buffering up, simple past and past participle buffered up)

present singular third person buffers up · participle present buffering up · participle past buffered up · past buffered up

  1. transitiverail transportTo move (a rail vehicle) so that its buffers are touching the buffers of another rail vehicle.

    The Type 3 will propel the unit on the return working to Bournemouth Central, where it will be buffered up to the remaining units for the journey back to Waterloo.

    1964 November, “The Electrification of BR: 5 The Southern's Bournemouth scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 321
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Chicago

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