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butt-weld en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of buttweld.
One section of the line will consist of 60 ft. lengths of rail welded together on site to form fully continuous rails; another will be of 300 ft. lengths, flash butt-welded in Dinsdale Rail Welding Depot and fishplated together on site; [...].
1959 November, “Talking of Trains: Widening north of York”, in Trains Illustrated, page 518:The steel sheeting was butt-welded and a cover strip screwed over it to cover the joints.
1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398:
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