railroad

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The bitterness, if any, was that we had not a brace So, at last, in an hour, after shooting one bird and swallowing six million berries, for the railroad was a shaft into a mine of them, we came to the terminus.

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  1. noun A road composed of parallel steel rails supported by ties and providing a track for locomotive-drawn trains or other wheeled vehicles.
  2. noun A system of railroad track, together with the land, stations, rolling stock, and other related property under one management.
  3. transitive verb To transport by railroad.
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  • Grand Junction and La Grange on the Memphis railroad were abandoned. —  Personal Memoirs of U S Grant 01
  • The broken bridge of the railroad was a little below us, and at the base of one of its massive piers, in the rocky bed of the river, lay a locomotive, which the Rebels had precipitated there. —  Sketches and Studies
  • The bitterness, if any, was that we had not a brace So, at last, in an hour, after shooting one bird and swallowing six million berries, for the railroad was a shaft into a mine of them, we came to the terminus. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
  • Kent stayed partly because a local attorney for the railroad was as necessary in Gaston the bereaved as in Gaston the strenuous; partly, also, because he was a student of his kind, and the broken city gave him laboratory opportunities for the study of human nature at its worst. —  The Grafters
  • I thought the railroad was a splendid thing. —  The Bark Covered House
 

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  1. from rail + road.
  2. from railroad, n.
 

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/ˈreɪlroʊd/
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