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Definition of hot box in US English: hot boxnoun 1(in a railroad vehicle) an overheated axle box or journal box. Example sentencesExamples - A hot box detector went off about 10 miles from Alpine.
- Things they would watch for included smoke or fire from a hot box (wheel journal), shifted loads, and dragging equipment, evidenced by signs of freshly damaged ties etc. as seen from a rearward look.
- The infamous hot box detector at Springer caught us and resulted in a half hour delay, which killed most of the time we made up.
- At 6: 09 PM, I heard a defect detector at milepost 165.1 say that it found a hot box.
2 another term for sweatbox (sense 1)
Definition of hot box in US English: hot boxnoun 1(in a railroad vehicle) an overheated journal box. Example sentencesExamples - At 6: 09 PM, I heard a defect detector at milepost 165.1 say that it found a hot box.
- Things they would watch for included smoke or fire from a hot box (wheel journal), shifted loads, and dragging equipment, evidenced by signs of freshly damaged ties etc. as seen from a rearward look.
- The infamous hot box detector at Springer caught us and resulted in a half hour delay, which killed most of the time we made up.
- A hot box detector went off about 10 miles from Alpine.
2Very hot confined place.
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