Meanings
adjectivesix-coupled (not comparable)
- not comparablerail transportOf a locomotive, having six driving wheels on three axles coupled together with rods.
Tank engines, all six-coupled, are used on a variety of services.
1950 October, R. A. Marshall, “Kuala Lumpur, an Important Malayan Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 706
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