[reyl-rohd] 
| 1. | a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail. |
| 2. | an entire system of such roads together with its rolling stock, buildings, etc.; the entire railway plant, including fixed and movable property. |
| 3. | the company of persons owning or operating such a plant. |
| 4. | Bowling. a split. |
| 5. | railroads, stocks or bonds of railroad companies. |
| 6. | to transport by means of a railroad. |
| 7. | to supply with railroads. |
| 8. | Informal. to push (a law or bill) hastily through a legislature so that there is not time enough for objections to be considered. |
| 9. | Informal. to convict (a person) in a hasty manner by means of false charges or insufficient evidence: The prisoner insisted he had been railroaded. |
| 10. | to work on a railroad. |
| rail·road (rāl'rōd') n.
v. tr.
To work for a railroad company. rail'road'er n. |
