"rail-track" meaning in All languages combined

See rail-track on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: rail-tracks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} rail-track (plural rail-tracks)
  1. Archaic form of rail track. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: rail track
    Sense id: en-rail-track-en-noun-DEdh5mFx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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          "text": "A carriage, such as we have described, could not travel along a railway with single rail-tracks, owing to the axles not being both of one length; […]",
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          "ref": "1886 May 23, T[homas] De Witt Talmage, “[Tabernacle Pulpit: A Monthly Report of the Sermons Delivered by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., from the Pulpit of the Brooklyn Tabernacle.] Duties of Employers to Employees. […]”, in The Brooklyn Magazine, page 54",
          "text": "In this country the torch put to the factories that have discharged hands for good or bad reason; obstructions on the rail-tracks in front of midnight express trains, because the offenders do not like the president of the company; […]",
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