tumblehome
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See also: tumble home
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tumblehome (plural tumblehomes)
- (nautical) The inward curve of the topsides of some ship hulls; the term was also used for rolling stock on railways in Britain.
- 1961 August, “The English Electric Type 5 3,300 h.p. "Deltic" diesels for British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 468:
- The bodysides have a gentle tumblehome, which gives the machine impressive solidarity of appearance, well set off by the new B.R. standard livery of light-skirted green.
- 2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the [sic] [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 46:
- Like the Pullmans, however, there would be a familiar curving tumblehome and cant rail, and a similar white window surround […] .
Translations
[edit]inward sloping topside of a ship hull
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