Meaning of rail-track | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of rail track.

alt-of, archaic

Examples

“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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