chime whistle

English

Noun

chime whistle (plural chime whistles)

  1. (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.
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