English Explanatory Dictionary

Rollbock

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bogie used to carry a railway carriage on a line of different gauge to the one it was built for, usually a narrower gauge.

Word forms

Rollbock Rollbocks

Etymology

From German Rolle (“roll”) + Bock (“buck”); the term originated in Switzerland in the early 1880s.

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