Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a railroad, a timber or sill placed under opposite rails as a support and to prevent them from spreading; a tie or sleeper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Railroad) A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rail transport A
sleeper supporting and connecting therails , and holding them in place.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
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Examples
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Then she thrust one end of the jack under a cross-tie.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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The track was overgrown with vines and stunted trees, every wooden cross-tie in the grip of a dozen tentacles of vegetation.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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The track was overgrown with vines and stunted trees, every wooden cross-tie in the grip of a dozen tentacles of vegetation.
Uglies Scott Westerfeld 2005
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Actually, to cross-tie back to another recently read book, the elder Tompkins comes across as a bit reminiscent to me of the character of Jack Parsons as presented by George Pendle in his Parsons bio _Strange Angel_.
weekend: bills, birthdays, books, bassandmore, bats badger 2005
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She pointed out the two wash stalls with hot water and heat lamps and the six grooming cross-tie areas with nonskid pads.
Ms Longshot Kurtz, Sylvie 2005
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Then she thrust one end of the jack under a cross-tie.
Uglies Scott Westerfeld 2005
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Then she thrust one end of the jack under a cross-tie.
Uglies Scott Westerfeld 2005
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The track was overgrown with vines and stunted trees, every wooden cross-tie in the grip of a dozen tentacles of vegetation.
Uglies Scott Westerfeld 2005
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"Cross my heart and hope to die, stick a cross-tie in my eye."
Where There's Smoke Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1994
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And them boys drew a cross-tie that was lying there around on the front of that dirt pile to where our lever car would hit it.
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