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railwaylike en · ADJ

Etymology

From railway + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a railway.
   • Then Jock would come skating straight down with his horse almost on its haunches, leaving long railwaylike lines behind him, and nearing the bottom would gradually ease out his horse, and shoot away till he came to some other obstruction. 1858, Robert Smith Surtees, John Leech, Plain or Ringlets?:

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