| 单词 | plateway |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplateway plateway n. a railway, tramway, etc., with plates (sense 20) for rails. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun] > laid with rails railway1681 railroad1757 plate railway1825 plateway1825 road railway1850 strap road1861 strap railroad1909 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 547 The bars or plates of metal of which railways and plate-ways are composed. 1882 Society 28 Oct. 8/2 Liverpool..is for constructing a special and novel form of a road called a ‘plateway’, along which lorries and ordinary carts may be drawn in a string by a traction engine or by horses. 2003 G. Biddle Britain's Hist. Railway Buildings 317/2 A length of cast-iron plateway..runs alongside a section of the Shropshire canal. < as lemmas |
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