单词 | middle rail |
释义 | middle railnoun 1The rail of a door level with the hands, to which the handle or lock is usually fixed. 2A third, cogged, rail between the two running rails of a railway line, used in connection with a rack-and-pinion device on an engine for the ascent and descent of steep inclines; (later also) an additional rail between the two running rails which conveys the current in some electric railways. OriginLate 17th century; earliest use found in Joseph Moxon (1627–1691), printer and globe maker. |
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