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Meaning of railway sleeper | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A railroad tie.

UK

Equivalents

Deutsch Schwelle
Galego travesa
日本語 枕木
Polski podkład
Svenska syll

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

railway spine railway stamp railway station railway time railway track railway train

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