| 释义 |
† rail timber U.S. Obs.
[f. rail n.2 + timber n.1]
Timber suitable for making rails.
1662Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Rec. (1901) 396 He is to preserve all the Rayle timber. 1681Town Rec. Topsfield, Mass. (1917) I. 36/2 There shall be noe raile timber feled. 1786G. Washington Diary 30 Oct. (1925) III. 131 The Wood part, of wch. there is a good deal, is tolerably full of rail timber and wood. 1816U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1915) X. 281 A poor stony rocky Country..with an abundance of good Chestnut rail Timber. 1843N. Boone Jrnl. 23 July in L. Pelzer Marches of Dragoons (1917) 233 There being a great scarcity of water and no building or rail timber. 1860H. Greeley Overland Journey v. 65 The squatter can give you a hundred good excuses for his miserable condition:..he has no good rail-timber [etc.]. |