bufferhead

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English

Etymology

From buffer +‎ head.

Noun

bufferhead (plural bufferheads)

  1. (rail transport) The head of a buffer, which receives the impact.

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bufferhead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)