Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stand which supports the levers by which railway-switches are moved, together with the locking-arrangements, etc.
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Examples
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It was pocket-dark by the time the switch-stand at the basin siding swung into the broad beam of the electric headlight.
Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893
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