railway sleeper en · NOUN
Meanings
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(UK) A railroad tie.
West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| railway sleepers | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| railroad sleeper | alternative | lexicographic |