close-coupled
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kləʊsˈkʌpəld/
Adjective
close-coupled (not comparable)
- Attached, coupled or fixed close together.
- 1961 February, “Letters to the Editor: Swiss railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 126:
- Actually, as built, these were the motive power ends of two passenger railcars, each being close-coupled to a driving trailer which had only one axle at the locomotive end and a bogie at the other.
References
- “close-coupled” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.