| 单词 | trainway |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrainway trainway n. (a) a line of rails for the transporting of small loads, often a temporary one, as in a mine or in the course of construction of a railway; †(b) U.S. a platform hinged to a wharf, with a line of rails upon which railway cars or trucks may run to and from a ferry boat (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > temporary track trainway1839 train road1875 shoo-fly1905 society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > hinged track for running on to ferry trainway1867 society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay > specific equipment on trainway1867 wharf crane1893 wharf-shed1952 1807 W. H. Wollaston in Philos. Mag. 27 83 The coals from the upper veins of the mountain require to be let down in large quantities to the trainway tunnel below. 1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 46/1 The wagons when loaded..are easily pushed..down the trainway to the face of the cliff. 1852 J. S. Dana Jrnl. 3 Dec. in D. T. Dana Fashionable Tour Great Lakes & Upper Mississippi (2004) xi. 91 The lead mine we went to visit is two miles north west of Dubuque...The descent was 125 feet perpendicular and we landed in a high cavern... Here a man gave each of us a candle & led the way to the east through a narrow passage with a small car & train way in the middle. 1867 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1865 I. Index p. vii, in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (39th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 52) IX Boats, Ferry, Trainway for. [Patent text Tramway.] 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2610/1 Train-way, a hinged platform which forms a bridge leading from a wharf to the deck of a ferry-boat. 1945 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 19 137 All along both the northern and southern trainways and tramways, towns and cities have become the unintended new homes of thousands who wanted to get to California. 1992 Ports '92 (Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers) 1 107 Three rail alternatives are carried through the environmental document: an at-grade railroad.., a depressed train way with vertical side walls,..and a depressed train way with sloped side walls. 2004 R. H. Limbaugh & W. P. Fuller Calaveras Gold ii. 53 Heavily in debt and set back by a brushfire that burned their ‘train-way’, the Cornishmen ‘quarreled among themselves’ and dissolved the partnership. < as lemmas |
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