body bolster

noun

Railroads.

1. the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.

Example Sentences

Advances in medical technology like magnetic resonance imagining, which do not require cutting open a body, bolster a belief that autopsies are less necessary.

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The body bolster is made up of two rolled steel plates bolted together at their ends and supported by a steel draw casting, the ends of which form a support for the center sills.

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