railhead
Origin of railhead
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How to use railhead in a sentence
Great herds of cattle, gathered in Texas for delivery to Kansas railheads, were driven across the territory.
We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run | James Arthur KjelgaardI have seen numbers of wounded go through the various railheads.
War Letters of a Public-School Boy | Paul Jones.By day the roads were empty, the railheads free—our "back area" as quiet as the front of the XIth Corps in the summer of '16.
A Company of Tanks | W. H. L. WatsonWe woke this morning at Merville, one of the railheads for Neuve Chapelle, and loaded up very early—guns going as hard as ever.
Only the Japanese know how to conventionalise a tram-wheel or make a key-pattern of railheads.
From Sea to Sea | Rudyard Kipling
British Dictionary definitions for railhead
/ (ˈreɪlˌhɛd) /
a terminal of a railway
the farthest point reached by completed track on an unfinished railway
military the point at which material and personnel are transferred from rail to another conveyance
the upper part of a railway rail, on which the traffic wheels run
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