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Word of the Day 28 June 2026

Rollbock

nounIndustrial supplies, equipment, and components

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.

Why this one

A whole logistics problem solved in one word: moving rolling stock onto a line it was never built for, without unloading it first.

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