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Rolling stock   /rˈoʊlɪŋ stɑk/   Listen
adjective
Rolling  adj.  
1.
Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.
2.
Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.
3.
Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land. (U.S.)
Rolling bridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.
Rolling circle of a paddle wheel, the circle described by the point whose velocity equals the velocity of the ship.
Rolling fire (Mil.), a discharge of firearms by soldiers in line, in quick succession, and in the order in which they stand.
Rolling friction, that resistance to motion experienced by one body rolling upon another which arises from the roughness or other quality of the surfaces in contact.
Rolling mill, a mill furnished with heavy rolls, between which heated metal is passed, to form it into sheets, rails, etc.
Rolling press.
(a)
A machine for calendering cloth by pressure between revolving rollers.
(b)
A printing press with a roller, used in copperplate printing.
Rolling stock, or Rolling plant, the locomotives and vehicles of a railway.
Rolling tackle (Naut.), tackle used to steady the yards when the ship rolls heavily.





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"Rolling stock" Quotes from Famous Books



... doctrines then rife in Russia. Both Lenine and Trotzky by agreement with Professor Masaryk furnished these men with passes for leaving the country and in spite of the chaotic condition of transportation ample rolling stock, amounting to about sixty trains of forty freight cars each, was placed at their disposal or secured by the Czechs through their own efforts. Arrangements had already been made with representatives of the French ...
— World's War Events, Volume III • Various
... has favoured the army this year at the expense of all the other public services, by increasing its peace-footing strength and the number of its officers, by ordering more than two hundred locomotives and a corresponding amount of rolling stock intended to expedite mobilisation. Seventy new batteries have been formed. The artillery has been furnished with new ammunition, the infantry with new weapons, and the strategic network of railways has ...
— The Schemes of the Kaiser • Juliette Adam
... most valuable high-power stations, which was able to communicate with one relay only, with Berlin—was captured almost intact, and much rolling stock also fell into the hands of the ...
— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish
... Atbara to Khartum, the work on which is already on hand. Well, against this large expenditure we have some assets to show. We have, or shall have, 760 miles of railway, properly equipped with engines, rolling stock, and a track with bridges in good order. I must admit that the railway stations and waiting-rooms are somewhat primitive, but then we do not wait long in the Sudan. [Laughter.] Well, for this running concern I do not think that L3,000 a mile will be considered too high a value. This represents ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... the work was necessarily done, were zealous to pay for emancipation by fidelity to the new regime, and many poor devils among them forfeited their lives by services performed with more loyalty than discretion. Railways—even those having a more than nominal equipment of rails and rolling stock—were unavailable for secret conveyance of the cotton. Navigating the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers were a few small steamboats, the half-dozen pilots familiar with these streams exacting one hundred dollars a day for their services; but our ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce • Ambrose Bierce
... left with me around Vicksburg were very busily and unpleasantly employed in making expeditions against guerilla bands and small detachments of cavalry which infested the interior, and in destroying mills, bridges and rolling stock on the railroads. The guerillas and cavalry were not there to fight but to annoy, and therefore disappeared on the first ...
— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan
... our Lattimore & Great Western bonds. Of course, we never expected to build this railway with our own funds. For two reasons, at least: it is bad form to do eccentric things, and we lacked a million or two of having the money. The line with buildings and rolling stock would cost, say, twelve thousand dollars per mile. Before it could be built we must find some one who would agree to take its bonds for at least that sum. As no one would pay quite par for bonds of a new and independent road, ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick


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