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marshalling yard

nounC2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A marshalling yard is where wagons are sorted into trains. Shunt in the marshalling yard.

The clever ones use a hump, letting gravity roll each wagon into the right siding. A marshalling yard was among the first places computers were used for scheduling.

Martin Falbisoner · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of marshalling yard

  1. 1nounmarshalling yardWhere wagons are sorted into trains.C2

    “The marshalling yard handled two thousand wagons a day.”

marshalling yard is a yard.

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