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railroading, vbl. n. Chiefly U.S.|ˈreɪlrəʊdɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. Travelling by rail. Also attrib.
1842F. A. Kemble Let. 16 June in Rec. Later Life (1882) II. 258 An hour's railroading from London has brought me into a lovely country. 1855Lowell Lett. I. 251 A quiet Sunday..after a week's railroading. 1872Mark Twain Innoc. Abr. 77 It is hard to make railroading pleasant. Ibid. xxvii. 217 These matter-of-fact railroading and telegraphing days. 1905Daily Chron. 9 Feb. 33 Automobilism has been taken too much as a matter of course, though its position is obviously midway between cycling and rail-roading.
2. The business of making or working railroads.
1882Pidgeon Engineer's Holiday I. 228 Mountain rail⁓roading is much easier at its highest than at its lower levels. 1887M. Roberts Western Avernus 203 Railroading is considered by all who do not follow it as a ‘low-down job’. 1907Daily Chron. 20 Feb. 4/7 [Bad management] has brought American railroading into the position of being the most slovenly of all our great business enterprises. 1915Lit. Digest 4 Sept. 458/1 The New Haven was wrecked by excessive capital issues either alien to the business of railroading or for properties and purposes without equivalent value. 1945H. Hubbard Railroad Avenue ii. 7 The prevalence of Joneses in railroading, as elsewhere, is shown by the fact that in 1944 there were 1,078 Joneses on the Canadian National pay roll. 1977Modern Railways Dec. 460/3 Precious little has been heard of how they order things in the land of—still largely—free enterprise railroading. 1979Tucson Mag. Apr. 47/3 His re-creation of early British railroading will warm the cockles of every train buff's heart.
3. The action of ‘rushing’ things. In quot. attrib.
1884American VIII. 104 A conviction secured in an hour..the ‘railroading’ feature..produces a painful feeling.
4. Printing. In proof-correcting, a method of indicating by parallel lines that words are to be transferred to the next line; overrunning.
1882J. Southward Pract. Printing 153. |