Crossword clues for railroad
railroad
- Monopoly property
- A line of track providing a runway for wheels
- Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system
- Underground ___
- Convict falsely and quickly
- Frame
- Steamroller
- Send to prison hastily
- Rush through
- Convict hastily
- Push a bill through abruptly
- Force bar staff to accept article
- Line of force
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Railroad \Rail"road`\, v. t. To carry or send by railroad; usually fig., to send or put through at high speed or in great haste; to hurry or rush unduly; as, to railroad a bill through Condress. [Colloq., U. S.]
Railroad \Rail"road`\ (r[=a]l"r[=o]d`), Railway \Rail"way`\ (r[=a]l"w[=a]`), n.
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A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.
Note: The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of the older tramway.
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The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver. Note: Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the commoner word in the United States. Note: In the following and similar phrases railroad and railway are used interchangeably: Atmospheric railway, Elevated railway, etc. See under Atmospheric, Elevated, etc. Cable railway. See Cable road, under Cable. Ferry railway, a submerged track on which an elevated platform runs, for carrying a train of cars across a water course. Gravity railway, a railway, in a hilly country, on which the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an elevated point by stationary engines. Railway brake, a brake used in stopping railway cars or locomotives. Railway car, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels fitted for running on a railway. [U.S.] Railway carriage, a railway passenger car. [Eng.] Railway scale, a platform scale bearing a track which forms part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars. Railway slide. See Transfer table, under Transfer. Railway spine (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral disturbance, -- the symptoms often not developing till some months after the injury. Underground railroad Underground railway.
A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as beneath the streets of a city.
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Formerly, a system of co["o]peration among certain active antislavery people in the United States prior to 1866, by which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach Canada.
Note: [In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was usually used.] ``Their house was a principal entrep[^o]t of the underground railroad.''
--W. D. Howells.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to convict quickly and perhaps unjustly," 1873, American English, from railroad (n.).\n\nA person knowing more than might be desirable of the affairs, or perhaps the previous life of some powerful individual, high in authority, might some day ventilate his knowledge, possibly before a court of justice; but if his wisdom is railroaded to State's prison, his evidence becomes harmless.
["Wanderings of a Vagabond," New York, 1873]
\nRelated: Railroaded; railroading. An earlier verb sense was "to have a mania for building railroads" (1847).Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en chiefly US and Canada) A permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on. 2 (label en chiefly US and Canada) The transportation system comprising such roads and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train. 3 (label en chiefly US and Canada) A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such roads and usually associated assets 4 (context figuratively English) A procedure conducted or bullied in haste without due consideration. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To transport via railroad. 2 (context intransitive English) To operate a railroad. 3 (context intransitive English) To work for a railroad. 4 (context intransitive English) To travel by railroad. 5 (context intransitive English) To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads. 6 (context transitive English) To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution. 7 (context transitive English) To convict of a crime by circumventing due process. 8 (context transitive English) To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement. 9 (context role-playing games English) To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.
WordNet
n. line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system [syn: railway, railroad line, railway line, railway system]
a line of track providing a runway for wheels; "he walked along the railroad track" [syn: railroad track, railway]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 116
Land area (2000): 0.626665 sq. miles (1.623054 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.626665 sq. miles (1.623054 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63288
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 39.756761 N, 76.699396 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
A railroad is a means of transport.
Railroad may also refer to:
Railroad is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1983. It was originally released as Railroad 1 by mistake. The Shanachie Records reissue is correctly labeled as Railroad. It was his last principal recording for Takoma Records, the label he founded in 1959.
"Railroad" is the first solo single released by Maurice Gibb, best known as a member of the Bee Gees. It was released in April 1970, like the Bee Gees' songs from 1967 to 1972, the single was released by Polydor in most parts of the world while in the US and Canada it was released by Atco. In Canada it was also released by Atlantic and Cotillion. Gibb not release a follow-up single until 1984 when he released " Hold Her in Your Hand".
Usage examples of "railroad".
An order enjoining certain steam railroads from discriminating against an electric railroad by denying it reciprocal switching privileges did not violate the Fifth Amendment even though its practical effect was to admit the electric road to a part of the business being adequately handled by the steam roads.
Under these circumstances the Federal commander resolved to give up the attempt to assail Richmond from the north or east, and by a rapid movement to Petersburg, seize upon that place, cut the Confederate railroads leading southward, and thus compel an evacuation of the capital.
Enjoy the rest of your ride on the good old Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
Tompkins, of Boston, had explained at elaborate length those working principles, by the due and careful maintenance of which the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad not only extended its territory, increased its departmental influence, and transported livestock without starving them to death before the day of actual delivery, but also had for years succeeded in deceiving those passen84 F.
In 1900 Arkansas, bauxite was mined manually, and transported by wagon to the railroad station at Bryant.
He has at hand a thousand devices for making life less wearisome and more tolerable: the telephone, railroads, bichloride tablets, newspapers, sewers, correspondence schools, delicatessen.
They had moved in and made their bivouac at the foot of an old abandoned railroad embankment that jutted up nudely out of the scrubby liana and keawe jungle a couple of hundred yards inside the fence.
When I reflect that out of the 70,000,000 of this nation we number only 9,000,000, and that out of that 9,000,000 so large a proportion is made up of poor factory hands, poor mill and shop and mine and railroad employees, poor government clerks, I still fail to find material for buncombe or spread-eagle or taffy-giving.
The place attracted me like a magnet and I wished that I were writing of it and not Centennial, which at this point seemed pretty ordinary to me, but as I drove south, it occurred to me that I must be following the old Skimmerhorn Trail, and when I came to the low bluffs that marked the delineation between the river bottom and the prairie and I was able to look down into Centennial and its paltry railroad, with cottonwoods outlining the south side of the Platte, I had a suspicion that perhaps it too had had its moments of historic significance.
I ate dinner at the hotel, and my waiter was a man whose ancestors had come to Centennial with the building of the railroad in the 1880s and had lingered.
In truth, though, there was less of natural beauty to contemplate each time he drove north, from the Rock to Stock Island, to Boca Chica with its naval air station, across a procession of bridges that followed an old railroad line, into the Lower Keys.
But the inspiration that made it practical came to me while I was walking with my friend Dak through a railroad freight yard in my hometown of Daytona.
Lots of the darkies left after they heard about folks getting rich working on the railroads in Tennessee and about the high wages that were being paid on those big plantations in Mississippi.
The train crashes and derailments over the past three years were almost evenly divided between the Amtrak passenger system and the various long-haul and short-line freight railroads.
In the first of these cases the Court was confronted with the contention that the act had been intended only for the industrial combinations, and hence was not designed to apply to the railroads, for whose governance the Interstate Commerce Act had been enacted three years prior.