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Locomotive :: Locomotive (n.) A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix..

Metal :: Metal (n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

Slidometer :: Slidometer (n.) An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

Booking Office :: Booking office () An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship..

Axle Box :: Axle box () The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle..

Rail :: Rail (n.) A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.

Navvy :: Navvy (n.) Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc..

Longitudinal :: Longitudinal (n.) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

Tafferer :: Tafferer (n.) See Taffrail.

Skitty :: Skitty (n.) A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen..

Bridge :: Bridge (n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other..

Introit :: Introit (n.) A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar..

Cut :: Cut (n.) A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad..

Network :: Network (n.) Any system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads..

Trailer :: Trailer (n.) A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant..

Mahovo :: Mahovo (n.) A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel..

Feeder :: Feeder (n.) A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line..

Paludicolae :: Paludicolae (n. pl.) A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc..

Static :: Stathmograph (n.) A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train.

Collision :: Collision (n.) The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing..

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