"rail spike" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York, page 147:",
          "text": "The company use on the outside of both rails, on all sharp curves, a cast iron brace nearly the same height as the rail, and secured to tie with three rail spikes.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of large nail with an offset head used to fasten a rail or base plate to a wooden railroad tie/sleeper."
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        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
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          "large",
          "large"
        ],
        [
          "nail",
          "nail"
        ],
        [
          "offset",
          "offset"
        ],
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ],
        [
          "railroad tie",
          "railroad tie"
        ],
        [
          "sleeper",
          "sleeper"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A type of large nail with an offset head used to fasten a rail or base plate to a wooden railroad tie/sleeper."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "railroad spike"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "alt": "いぬくぎ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "inukugi",
          "sense": "a large nail used to fasten a rail base plate to a tie/sleeper",
          "word": "犬釘"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kostýlʹ",
          "sense": "a large nail used to fasten a rail base plate to a tie/sleeper",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "косты́ль"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rail spike"
}

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      "form": "rail spikes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "rail spike (plural rail spikes)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York, page 147:",
          "text": "The company use on the outside of both rails, on all sharp curves, a cast iron brace nearly the same height as the rail, and secured to tie with three rail spikes.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of large nail with an offset head used to fasten a rail or base plate to a wooden railroad tie/sleeper."
      ],
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          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
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          "large",
          "large"
        ],
        [
          "nail",
          "nail"
        ],
        [
          "offset",
          "offset"
        ],
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ],
        [
          "railroad tie",
          "railroad tie"
        ],
        [
          "sleeper",
          "sleeper"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A type of large nail with an offset head used to fasten a rail or base plate to a wooden railroad tie/sleeper."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪk"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "railroad spike"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "alt": "いぬくぎ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "inukugi",
      "sense": "a large nail used to fasten a rail base plate to a tie/sleeper",
      "word": "犬釘"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kostýlʹ",
      "sense": "a large nail used to fasten a rail base plate to a tie/sleeper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "косты́ль"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rail spike"
}