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- Railway - n. - 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.
- Railway - n. - 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.
- Van - n. - A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.
- Stateroom - n. - A small apartment for lodging or sleeping in the cabin, or on the deck, of a vessel; also, a somewhat similar apartment in a railway sleeping car.
- Longitudinal - n. - A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
- Switch - v. t. - To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
- Entrain - v. t. - To put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment.
- Air brake - - A railway brake operated by condensed air.
- Alignment - n. - The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.
- Stowaway - n. - One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.
- Bond - n. - An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.
- Booking clerk - - A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.
- Brake - v. t. - A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.
- Guard - v. t. - One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor.
- Dividend - n. - A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.
- Corner - n. - The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.
- Berth - n. - A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.
- Waste - v. - That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
- Telescope - a. - To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
- Staith - n. - A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.
- Sissoo - n. - A leguminous tree (Dalbergia Sissoo) of the northern parts of India; also, the dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from it. It is used in shipbuilding and for gun carriages, railway ties, etc.
- Depot - n. - A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.
- Booking office - - An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.
- Car wheel - - A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.
- Tramway - n. - A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.
- Slidometer - n. - An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.
- Aboard - adv. - On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.