| 单词 | switch-tower |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswitch-tower switch-tower n. U.S. a building containing the levers or other appliances for working a set of switches on a railway, etc.; a signal-box, -cabin, or -tower. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > types of signal system > signal-box signal box1822 signal cabin1861 switch-tower1897 tower1900 1897 R. Kipling in Scribner's Mag. Aug. 146/1 They were at the far north end of the yard, now, under a switch-tower, and looking down on the four-track way of the main traffic. 1901 Munsey's Mag. 25 699/1 The locomotive..stopping only once to allow McCann to drop another set of running orders at a switch tower on the next division. < as lemmas |
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