chime whistle
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]chime whistle (plural chime whistles)
- (especially rail transport) A steam whistle with at least two simultaneous tones.
- 1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 353:
- With a toot on her chime whistle, No. 6 set her 3 ft. 9 in. drivers [driving wheels] turning and we were off round the curve through Pennyburn works.