单词 | railroad guide |
释义 | > as lemmasrailroad guide railroad guide n. a booklet or leaflet listing train routes and times for a particular area. ΚΠ 1847 Niles' National Reg. 23 Oct. 114/2 ‘Doggett's railroad guide’ for September, 1847, has a table of railroads now in operation. 1859 L. D. Tierney Hist. Gold Discov. South Platte River 25 Persons starting from points east of Chicago, by obtaining a railroad guide, can easily estimate the distance and cost of travel for themselves to that point. 2003 P. L. Galison Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps iii. 126 A railroad guide in September 1883, for example, showed some forty-seven lines running on New York time. < as lemmas |
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