"brake tender" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "brake tenders",
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      "expansion": "brake tender (plural brake tenders)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 June, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Modern Railways, page 423",
          "text": "By the beginning of April at least seven green-liveried diesel brake tenders had been delivered to Toton depot and were being tested with B.R. Sulzer Type 4 diesels.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A railway vehicle which provided extra braking on freight trains with unfitted wagons (without automatic brakes) hauled by diesel locomotives, which being generally lighter than steam locomotives had less braking power. With the phasing out of unfitted wagons the brake tenders became redundant."
      ],
      "id": "en-brake_tender-en-noun-SKIWKSOJ",
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          "unfitted",
          "unfitted"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, UK) A railway vehicle which provided extra braking on freight trains with unfitted wagons (without automatic brakes) hauled by diesel locomotives, which being generally lighter than steam locomotives had less braking power. With the phasing out of unfitted wagons the brake tenders became redundant."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brake tender"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brake tenders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "brake tender (plural brake tenders)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 June, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Modern Railways, page 423",
          "text": "By the beginning of April at least seven green-liveried diesel brake tenders had been delivered to Toton depot and were being tested with B.R. Sulzer Type 4 diesels.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A railway vehicle which provided extra braking on freight trains with unfitted wagons (without automatic brakes) hauled by diesel locomotives, which being generally lighter than steam locomotives had less braking power. With the phasing out of unfitted wagons the brake tenders became redundant."
      ],
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        ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, UK) A railway vehicle which provided extra braking on freight trains with unfitted wagons (without automatic brakes) hauled by diesel locomotives, which being generally lighter than steam locomotives had less braking power. With the phasing out of unfitted wagons the brake tenders became redundant."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
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        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "brake tender"
}