"tamping machine" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tamping machines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tamping machine (plural tamping machines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
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            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 October, “News: New tamping machines for WR”, in Modern Railways, page 277",
          "text": "The BRB has ordered from Plasser & Theurer, through Plasser Railway Machinery (GB) Ltd., a total of 27 Plassermatic VKR-05-E hydraulic track levelling and tamping machines with electronic-beam levelling units.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 February 12, “Network News”, in RAIL, page 24",
          "text": "A near-miss between a tamping machine and a passenger train at Balham Junction on April 20 2019 was caused by a lack of information, lack of querying instructions and poor safety-critical communications.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A self-propelled rail-mounted machine used to pack or tamp ballast under railway tracks; a ballast tamper."
      ],
      "id": "en-tamping_machine-en-noun-om7bxWD2",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "pack",
          "pack"
        ],
        [
          "tamp",
          "tamp"
        ],
        [
          "ballast",
          "ballast"
        ],
        [
          "railway track",
          "railway track"
        ],
        [
          "tamper",
          "tamper#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A self-propelled rail-mounted machine used to pack or tamp ballast under railway tracks; a ballast tamper."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tamping machine"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tamping machines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tamping machine (plural tamping machines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 October, “News: New tamping machines for WR”, in Modern Railways, page 277",
          "text": "The BRB has ordered from Plasser & Theurer, through Plasser Railway Machinery (GB) Ltd., a total of 27 Plassermatic VKR-05-E hydraulic track levelling and tamping machines with electronic-beam levelling units.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 February 12, “Network News”, in RAIL, page 24",
          "text": "A near-miss between a tamping machine and a passenger train at Balham Junction on April 20 2019 was caused by a lack of information, lack of querying instructions and poor safety-critical communications.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A self-propelled rail-mounted machine used to pack or tamp ballast under railway tracks; a ballast tamper."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "pack",
          "pack"
        ],
        [
          "tamp",
          "tamp"
        ],
        [
          "ballast",
          "ballast"
        ],
        [
          "railway track",
          "railway track"
        ],
        [
          "tamper",
          "tamper#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A self-propelled rail-mounted machine used to pack or tamp ballast under railway tracks; a ballast tamper."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tamping machine"
}