Underground Railroad Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
arrangement arranging transcription | the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music |
axle | a shaft on which a wheel rotates |
axle bar | an iron bar that serves as an axletree |
cable railway funicular funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar railway car railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
cog railway rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
dead axle | an axle that carries a wheel but without power to drive it |
elevated railway elevated railroad elevated el overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
flower arrangement floral arrangement | a decorative arrangement of flowers |
line railway line rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
live axle driving axle | the axle of a self-propelled vehicle that provides the driving power |
locomotive engine locomotive engine railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
railroad track railroad railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels, he walked along the railroad track |
railway railroad railroad line railway line railway system | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
railway junction | a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross |
railway station railroad station railroad terminal train station train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
wheel and axle | hoist so arranged that a rope unwinding from a wheel is wound onto a cylindrical drum or shaft coaxial with the wheel |
yard railway yard railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
temporal arrangement temporal order | arrangement of events in time |
placement arrangement | the spatial property of the way in which something is placed, the arrangement of the furniture, the placement of the chairs |
spacing spatial arrangement | the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them |
arrangement organization organisation system | an organized structure for arranging or classifying, he changed the arrangement of the topics, the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original, he tried to understand their system of classification |
living arrangement | an arrangement to allow people (or ideas) to coexist |
agreement arrangement | the thing arranged or agreed to, they made arrangements to meet in Chicago |
musical arrangement arrangement | a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments |
arrangement | an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit, the result of arranging, a flower arrangement |
trainman railroader railroad man railwayman railway man | an employee of a railroad |
axle grease | a thick heavy grease used to lubricate axles |