What does rail-track mean?
Rail-track means Archaic form of rail track..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Archaic form of rail track..
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; […]
“If you mean the telegraph,” said the old gentleman, glancing his eye toward its wire, alongside the rail-track, “it is an excellent thing;—that is, of course, if the speculators in cotton and politics don’t get possession of it.[…]”
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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Rail-track means Archaic form of rail track..
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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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