英语词汇“iron way”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

iron way n. †(a) (in Belgium) a Roman road (obsolete rare); (b) a roadway laid with iron rails, a railway (cf. iron road n.) (now historical). [With sense (b) compare French chemin de fer (1784, after English railway n.), German Eisenbahn (1802, after English iron rail-way : see railway n.).]

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1712 N. Bergier Gen. Hist. Highways xxvi. 139 The common People of the Country call them by another Name, Iron Ways; either from the Hardness and Solidity of the Work..; or from the Colour of the small Flints..which compose the Surface of the said Ways.

1810 B. Silliman Jrnl. Trav. II. lxxiii. 265 The waggon runs on an iron way, with which the wheels are made to tally, that the carriage may not deviate from its course.

1850 Times 12 Dec. 6/3 The company is to lay down the iron way on the remainder of the distance to Rennes.

1921 W. H. Blake tr. L. Hémon Maria Chapdelaine v. 85 The easy day's journey now separating them from the marvels of the iron way.

2011 W. G. Thomas (title) The Iron Way: railroads, the Civil War, and the making of modern America.

单词	iron way
释义	> as lemmas iron way iron way n. †(a) (in Belgium) a Roman road (obsolete rare); (b) a roadway laid with iron rails, a railway (cf. iron road n.) (now historical). [With sense (b) compare French chemin de fer (1784, after English railway n.), German Eisenbahn (1802, after English iron rail-way : see railway n.).] ΚΠ 1712 N. Bergier Gen. Hist. Highways xxvi. 139 The common People of the Country call them by another Name, Iron Ways; either from the Hardness and Solidity of the Work..; or from the Colour of the small Flints..which compose the Surface of the said Ways. 1810 B. Silliman Jrnl. Trav. II. lxxiii. 265 The waggon runs on an iron way, with which the wheels are made to tally, that the carriage may not deviate from its course. 1850 Times 12 Dec. 6/3 The company is to lay down the iron way on the remainder of the distance to Rennes. 1921 W. H. Blake tr. L. Hémon Maria Chapdelaine v. 85 The easy day's journey now separating them from the marvels of the iron way. 2011 W. G. Thomas (title) The Iron Way: railroads, the Civil War, and the making of modern America. extracted from ironadj. < as lemmas
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