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car dump

car dump

[′kär ‚dəmp]
(mechanical engineering)
Any one of several devices for unloading industrial or railroad cars by rotating or tilting the car.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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In addition, Armenia is gradually turning into a car dump. In fact, cheap and low-quality cars are bought up wholesale and are retailed abroad.
The company website boasts a long list of services they offer, from dewatering systems to car dump stations, air and water lines, ventilation to borehole casting.
He says the last illegal car dump was five or six years ago.
According to police, law enforcers deputed at the Race Course Police Station on Tuesday saw unidentified men in a car dump a semi-naked girl near the Governor's House and flee the scene.
He has also destroyed a carefully worked out strategy by Solihull Council, which rightly took the pragmatic view that houses would be more complementary to village life than a car dump.
The radio controls are used at the company's two rotary car dump sites, where railcars filled with coal are dumped ready for transfer to barge.
An eyewitness, Abdullah Mohammad Nasser, said that he was at the hospital that day and he saw a car dump the girl at the front gate before speeding away.
John Prescott was criticised last night for overruling Solihull Council and a planning inspector by rejecting an application to replace the car dump in Meriden with new housing.
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