"railway sleeper" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "railway sleepers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "railway sleeper (plural railway sleepers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
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            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56",
          "text": "West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A railroad tie."
      ],
      "id": "en-railway_sleeper-en-noun--00CM1u1",
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        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "railroad tie",
          "railroad tie"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, chiefly UK) A railroad tie."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "railway sleeper"
}

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    {
      "form": "railway sleepers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "railway sleeper (plural railway sleepers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56",
          "text": "West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A railroad tie."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "railroad tie",
          "railroad tie"
        ]
      ],
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        "(rail transport, chiefly UK) A railroad tie."
      ],
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        "UK"
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      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "railway sleeper"
}