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  • adjective Without ballast.

Etymologies

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ballast +‎ -less

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Examples

  • CRH2C/E2-2000, Signal and ATC system: CTCS 1097 kms, CRS-I/II ballastless track, 3 hrs to travel for non-stopping trains Construction work done in 4 years since 2005.

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  • -- and last, but not least, the ballastless Mukhbir was to be despatched with a mail for Suez.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • The two Shaykhs, ‘Alayán and Hasan el-‘Ukbi, were to be paid off end dismissed with due ceremony; provisions were to be brought from the fort to the cove; useless implements to be placed in store; mules to be embarked — no joke without a pier! — and last, but not least, the ballastless Mukhbir was to be despatched with a mail for

    The Land of Midian 2003

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