| 单词 | railway-borne |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrailway-borne b. In objective and instrumental compounds, as railway-building, railway modelling, etc., nouns; railway-borne, adjective. ΚΠ 1841 Times 14 Apr. 5/4 The railway building on the French side..may not have the entire monopoly. 1843 (title) Ensamples of railway making. 1881 Daily News 9 Sept. 2/6 An inland market for..railway-borne fish. 1910 Encycl. Brit. 825/2 Skirmishes..varied the daily routine of railway-breaking and supply-finding, in which a belt of country 60 m. wide was..cleared. 1947 E. Beal (title) New developments in railway modelling. 1976 J. Lukasiewicz Railway Game 104 Another aspect of railway manning is the employment of redundant crewmen. 1994 D. Saunders Russia in Age of Reaction & Reform 1801–1881 (BNC) 234 In 1857..investors had taken their money out of state banks and put it into railway-building. 2005 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 29 Dec. 13 It [sc. Cardiff] is..the city in the UK with the highest number of railway-borne commuters, after London. < as lemmas |
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