Meanings
verbspot-check (third-person singular simple present spot-checks, present participle spot-checking, simple past and past participle spot-checked)
present singular third person spot-checks · participle present spot-checking · participle past spot-checked · past spot-checked
- alternativeAlternative form of spot check.
Metro-Vick Type 2 diesel No. D5704 undergoing a test of the generator output, using a mobile force-cooled resistance unit developed by B.T.H. for spot-checking locomotive power equipment away from a main works.
1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 269, photo caption
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