upperworks
nounEtymology From upper + works.
- On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe.1939 July, “Overseas Railways: Baltic Island Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:
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Slang head; brains