OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 543

railway

/ˈɹeɪlˌweɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ferrocarril
A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods.
That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporatio…
ferrocarril • riel • vía • vía férrea
A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.
His interest in railways is not the quality that marks Pearson out. Everyone was interested in railways. Over a thousand miles of them opened between 1837 and 1845, most of what wo…
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