filet
v.— «Closing the deal also would enable CSX to accelerate bridge and rail-bed work to allow passage of double-stacked container-freight trains between Boston and the New York state line. That would mean significant savings for CSX, which now has to remove the top tier of containers from double-stacked trains—“filet” them, in railroad argot—so they can pass under bridges built long before the container-freight era.» —“Let’s make a deal” Worcester Telegram & Gazette News (Massachusetts) Apr. 16, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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