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English
Noun
rail-track (plural rail-tracks)
- Archaic form of rail track.
1824, Mr Scott, “ Methods proposed by Mr Scott for overcoming Ascents on Rail-roads.”, in Robert Stevenson, editor, Prize-Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland. , volume VI, Edinburgh: Archd Constable & Co. , page 45:A carriage, such as we have described, could not travel along a railway with single rail-tracks, owing to the axles not being both of one length; […]
1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Flight of two Owls”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 283:“If you mean the telegraph,” said the old gentleman, glancing his eye toward its wire, alongside the rail-track, “it is an excellent thing;—that is, of course, if the speculators in cotton and politics don’t get possession of it. […]”
1886 May 23, T[homas] De Witt Talmage, “ Duties of Employers to Employees. ”, in The Brooklyn Magazine, page 54:In this country the torch put to the factories that have discharged hands for good or bad reason; obstructions on the rail-tracks in front of midnight express trains, because the offenders do not like the president of the company; […]