Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In railroading, an additional rail placed midway between the two ordinary rails of a track, designed, in connection with devices on the engine or cars, to keep a train from leaving the track on curves, crossings, or steep grades.

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Examples

  • For making soap tablets, a cutting board equipped with a guide-rail to align the soap bar at right angles to the cutting wire can easily be constructed from wood.

    Chapter 7 1995

  • Although there was no sign of any guide-rail, Theon told him that the cars could only run on predetermined tracks.

    Against The Fall Of Night Clarke, Arthur C. 1953

  • Down the third shaft over, the other cage was dropping like a plummet, a block of golden light walled in by black filigree-work and bisected vertically by the black line of the guide-rail.

    The Brass Bowl Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • The resulting laser-alignment guide-rail design integrates the Drylin W with clamp, Drylin SLW leadscrew system and Drylin ZLW belt-drive system.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • The resulting laser-alignment guide-rail design integrates the Drylin W with clamp, Drylin SLW leadscrew system and Drylin ZLW belt-drive system.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • The resulting laser-alignment guide-rail design integrates the Drylin W with clamp, Drylin SLW leadscrew system and Drylin ZLW belt-drive system.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • The resulting laser-alignment guide-rail design integrates the Drylin W with clamp, Drylin SLW leadscrew system and Drylin ZLW belt-drive system.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • The resulting laser-alignment guide-rail design integrates the Drylin W with clamp, Drylin SLW leadscrew system and Drylin ZLW belt-drive system.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • The resulting laser-alignment guide-rail design integrates the Drylin W with clamp, Drylin SLW leadscrew system and Drylin ZLW belt-drive system.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • The resulting laser-alignment guide-rail design integrates the Drylin W with clamp, Drylin SLW leadscrew system and Drylin ZLW belt-drive system.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

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