Synonym: dragoon, railroad line, railroad track, railway, railway line, railway system, sandbag. Similar words: road, broad, on the road, broadcast, take the road, rail, trail, trailer. Meaning: ['reɪlrəʊd] n. 1. line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight 2. a line of track providing a runway for wheels. v. 1. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means 2. supply with railroad lines 3. transport by railroad.
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91 I was representing a young boy who had been injured playing in the railroad yards on a large cable spool.
92 We only drove as far as a deserted street by the railroad tracks in our hometown so we could make out.
93 But transcontinental status always brought a classical rush to the head of railroad companies.
94 Rebels bombed the Beira railroad, a vital link between the capital and the port.
95 Railroad managers then complained that the mails were being interrupted and asked for federal intervention.
96 Within a few years, railroad lines bridged the nation, moving people and goods into unsettled territories.
97 Friends of his had moved west to make fortunes now that livestock was shipped by railroad from the great range to Chicago.
98 The relative insignificance of malfunctioning signals is borne out by statistics from the Federal Railroad Administration.
99 We bounced over the railroad tracks in Fresno and hit the wild streets of Fresno Mextown.
100 I had left my bag at the railroad station and went back to retrieve it.
101 They fill their campaign coffers with money from the oligarchs and monopolists of timber, railroad, utilities and mining.
102 As they marched from the railroad stations, they were escorted by crowds cheering vociferously.
103 The railroad brought suit in state court on interstate-commerce grounds and won.
104 She also collected tales from those runaway slaves who escaped via the Underground Railroad.
105 One day a man from the railroad company brought a steam drill to the crew.
106 He worked on the railroad in the dining car for 41 years.
107 The use of the courts to end a railroad strike in 1922 ushered in a lean period for the unions.
108 On the southeastern corner of the property, one final slim reminder: a sweeping curve of railroad track.
109 There is also an 1830 Conestoga wagon, an observation platform of a railroad car, and a replica of a Tepee.
110 A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt
111 The Federals halted, turned, and fled, our friends crossing the railroad and pursuing them.
112 Lay my head on the railroad line, Train come along, pacify my mind.
113 Railroad apartment with windows on the street and windows in back that overlooked a courtyard.
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114 History teaches that the lack of a railroad stop condemned many towns to a lingering death a hundred years ago.
115 Then, in 1875, the Somerset Railroad arrived, snaking into town along the east bank of the Kennebec River.
116 Police stood at highways and railroad stations to halt the exodus of thousands of city dwellers.
117 The search often wound up back at a railroad station bench.
118 The railroad land grants were a gift the size of California plus the major part of Montana.
119 But the state has lacked a full-time railroad signal inspector since October 1997.
120 The demand for Navajo blankets slowly grew until the railroad arrived at reservation boundaries in 1881.