Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
garage sale
yard sale | an outdoor sale of used personal or household items held on the seller's premises |
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 |
| Charlestown Navy Yard | the navy yard in Boston where the frigate `Constitution' is anchored |
chicken yard
hen yard
chicken run
fowl run | an enclosed yard for keeping poultry |
cog railway
rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
dumb bomb
gravity bomb | a bomb that falls because of gravity and is not guided to a target |
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 |
| front yard | the yard in front of a house, between the house and the street |
| gravimeter gravity meter | a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth |
holding pen
holding paddock
holding yard | a pen where livestock is temporarily confined |
line railway line
rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive
engine locomotive engine
railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
| main yard | yard for a square mainsail |
| marshalling yard | a railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loaded |
navy yard
naval shipyard | a military shipyard |
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 |
ropewalk
rope yard | workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made |
| scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
| side yard | the grounds at either side of a house |
| yard | an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) |
| yard | a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen |
yard grounds
curtilage | the enclosed land around a house or other building, it was a small house with almost no yard |
yard railway yard
railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
yarder
yard donkey | a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road |
yard goods
piece goods | merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard |
| yard marker | (football) a marker indicating the yard line |
yardstick
yard measure | a ruler or tape that is three feet long |
graveness
gravity
sobriety soberness
somberness
sombreness | a manner that is serious and solemn |
| specific gravity | the density of a substance relative to the density of water |
theory of gravitation
theory of gravity
gravitational theory
Newton's theory of gravitation | (physics) the theory that any two particles of matter attract one another with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them |
gravity wave
gravitation wave | (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light |
gravity
solemnity | a solemn and dignified feeling |
Scotland Yard
New Scotland Yard | the detective department of the metropolitan police force of London |
center of gravity
centre of gravity | the point within something at which gravity can be considered to act, in uniform gravity it is equal to the center of mass |
dump
garbage dump
trash dump
rubbish dump
wasteyard
waste-yard
dumpsite | a piece of land where waste materials are dumped |
| yard line | in football, line parallel to the goal lines indicating position on the field |
| yard | a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings), they opened a repair yard on the edge of town |
| yard | a tract of land where logs are accumulated |
normal fault
gravity fault
common fault | an inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall |
convict
con
inmate yard bird yardbird | a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison |
trainman
railroader
railroad man
railwayman
railway man | an employee of a railroad |
yard bird
yardbird | a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks |
gravity
gravitation
gravitational attraction
gravitational force | (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe, especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface, the more remote the body the less the gravity, the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love--Albert Einstein |
| solar gravity | the gravity of the sun, solar gravity creates extreme pressures and temperatures |
| gravity-assist | (spaceflight) a trajectory that passes close to a planetary body in order to gain energy from its gravitational field |