单词 | pole railway |
释义 | > as lemmaspole railway pole railway n. North American (now historical) a temporary track constructed with two parallel lines of barked poles serving as rails, used esp. for the transportation of timber. ΚΠ 1907 N.E.D. at Pole sb.1 Pole-railway. 1931 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 4 Aug. 5/6 Paul Reynolds, who built a pole railway to transport logs from Oconto County to the Wolf river. 2000 Halifax (Nova Scotia) Daily News (Nexis) 20 Mar. 4 It was a pole railway, made from skinned maple trees laid end-to-end. < as lemmas |
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