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staybolted en · ADJ

Etymology

From staybolt + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a firebox, qualifier:boiler etc.) fitted with staybolts.
    • Kansas City Southern's 10 J-class 2-10-4's of 1937 had the first staybolted boilers with 310 pounds pressure. 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.:
    • 7.2.6 Problems of the Staybolted Firebox: The firebox was the most problematical of the component structures of the steam locomotive. It required endless maintenance. 2018, The American Steam Locomotive in the Twentieth Century, by Tom Morrison, McFarland, →ISBN: