"air horn" meaning in All languages combined

See air horn on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: air horns [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} air horn (plural air horns)
  1. Alternative form of airhorn Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: airhorn
    Sense id: en-air_horn-en-noun-iztLHpKy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1944 January and February, “Chime Whistles and Horns”, in Railway Magazine, page 2:",
          "text": "For use with petrol-electric, and subsequently diesel-electric, vehicles, air horns were developed about 1918, and today they vary from single-note instruments to those producing as many as five chiming pitches.",
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          "ref": "1962 March, Brian Haresnape, “Design in 1961—a Retrospect”, in Modern Railways, page 191:",
          "text": "At a later date in production, the Western Region requested that the two-tone air horns should be placed on the cab roof instead of behind the buffer beam, in order to increase audibility.",
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