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buffer up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To move (a rail vehicle) so that its buffers are touching the buffers of another rail vehicle.
    • The Type 3 will propel the unit on the return working to Bournemouth Central, where it will be buffered up to the remaining units for the journey back to Waterloo. 1964 November, “The Electrification of BR: 5 The Southern's Bournemouth scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 321:

Forms

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buffering up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
buffered up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
buffered up Tense=Past lexicographic
buffers up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic