| tilting-type boxcar unloader [`tilt·iŋ ¦tīp `bäks´kär ǝn`lōd·ǝr] CIVIL ENGINEERING A mechanism that is used to unload material such as grain from a boxcar; the car, with its door open, is held by end clamps on the specialized piece of track and tilted 15% from the vertical and then tilted endwise 40% to the horizontal to discharge the material at one end of the car, and 40% in the opposite direction to discharge the material from the opposite end. |