Railroad
['reɪlrəʊd] or ['relrod]
Definition
(verb.) transport by railroad.
(verb.) supply with railroad lines; 'railroad the West'.
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Definition
(n.) Alt. of Railway
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Railway.
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If you dream of a railroad, you will find that your business will need close attention, as enemies are trying to usurp you. For a young woman to dream of railroads, she will make a journey to visit friends, and will enjoy some distinction. To see an obstruction on these roads, indicates foul play in your affairs. To walk the cross ties of a railroad, signifies a time of worry and laborious work. To walk the rails, you may expect to obtain much happiness from your skilful manipulation of affairs. To see a road inundated with clear water, foretells that pleasure will wipe out misfortune for a time, but it will rise, phoenix like, again.
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n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
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Examples
- A large force of railroad men have already been sent to Beaufort, and other mechanics will go to Fort Fisher in a day or two. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This advanced Warren's position on the Weldon Railroad very considerably. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He did this, destroying the canal as far as Goochland, and the railroad to a point as near Richmond as he could get. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr. Huskisson, one of the members of Parliament for Liverpool, and a warm friend and supporter of Stephenson and the railroad, had stepped from his coach, and was standing on the railway. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Moving far to Sherman's right, he succeeded in reaching the railroad about Big Shanty, and moved north on it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The railroads, of course, were thoroughly destroyed on the way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The first railroads to be built were principally branches of the Liverpool and Manchester one, and chiefly located in the mining and manufacturing county of Lancaster. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Railroads traverse it in every direction, north, south, east, and weSt. The mines are worked. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The railroads and canal should be destroyed beyond possibility of repairs for weeks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Beauregard, with a large portion of his force, was left south by the cutting of the railroads by Kautz. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The railroads prefer redwood for ties because of its resistance to decay in contact with moist soil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Other big users are railroads, banks, mail-order houses, and city, state and government offices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The old gentleman's undoubting, unquestioning simplicity has a rare freshness about it in these matter-of-fact railroading and telegraphing days. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the latest system of railroading greater attention has been paid to the lives and limbs of those employed as workmen on the trains, especially to those of brakemen. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is hard to make railroading pleasant in any country. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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