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body bolster

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noun

Railroads.

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

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

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2021

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.

From The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment by Anonymous

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