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Meanings of railway tie in English

Russian
пропитанная шпала
Portuguese
travessa
Spanish
durmiente
Catalan
travessa
Wikidata

Support for the rails in railroad tracks.

        пропитанная шпала
        Synonyms
        Examples for "sleeper"
        Examples for "sleeper"
        1
        Pockets of resistance remained in west Mosul, including sleeper cells, Mattis said.
        Reuters
        2
        The pose of the Indian was the natural one of a sleeper.
        The Phantom of the River
        3
        Catherine lost her super-sleeper status after complex shoulder surgery two years ago.
        Joy bauer's food cures
        4
        The pillows were arranged-thedraught given; but the sleeper never awoke again.
        The Monctons: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 2)
        5
        The regular breathing of the sleeper proclaimed the soundness of his slumber.
        The Mad King
        1
        It leaned against the woodpile to the left, thick as a railroad crosstie.
        The talisman
        2
        And then I'd sleep like a weathered crosstie.
        Blind willow, sleeping woman
        3
        Sleeper - Railroad crosstie.
        Things To Make
        4
        The crosstie the boy had stepped on had given way almost entirely and flopped downward lazily, swinging on a rotten rivet.
        The gunslinger
        5
        The bridge was okay, but the idea that I could balance me and a motorcycle on one narrow crosstie was a complete failure.
        The Life of Me: An Autobiography
        1
        The man would've made a railroad tie look like Charles Atlas.
        Boy’s Life
        2
        The life of the average railroad tie is at least doubled by such treatment.
        The School Book of Forestry
        3
        She set the glass down on the railroad tie.
        Desert places: a novel of terror
        4
        He pointed to a railroad tie and kept going.
        The new yorker
        5
        He jumped a rotten railroad tie in the lot.
        The marrowbone marble company
        1
        Roland says that for every railway sleeper, there was one death.
        Radio NZ
        2
        He said Mr Scargill struck himself accidentally against what looked like a railway sleeper.
        The Guardian
        3
        The railway sleeper bench, for example, bears the original drill holes and the mark where the track plates were.
        The Guardian
        4
        Turning a railway sleeper into a bench isn't easy, either - drilling through a 70kg piece of oak is a struggle.
        The Guardian
        5
        Kids play in a refuse pit between tossed aside railway sleepers.
        Unmanned
        Usage of railway tie in English
        1
        He sat down on a railway tie, not because he was tired, but because he was at the end of his rope.
        Metro 2033
        2
        Such impregnation methods double or treble the life of railway ties.
        Handwork in Wood
        3
        Then the last scene will probably be Eskimos laying railway ties.
        The Masques of Ottawa
        4
        The pressure-treated wood segment includes railway ties, utility poles, residential lumber and industrial products.
        Reuters
        5
        We crossed a large stream where railway ties were being rafted down the river.
        Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, ...
        6
        They quietly walked toward it, scrambling over old railway ties that had never been laid.
        The hunchback assignments
        7
        He takes the railway ties several at a time, all the while calling out encouragement to Jesse.
        The day the falls stood still
        8
        The Forestry Service under the Engineer Corps has cut the greater part of the timber and railway ties required.
        World's War Events Volume 3 / Beginning with the departure of t...
        9
        Railway ties, however, cost nothing.
        Tommy's honor: the story of old tom morris and young tom morris,...
        10
        The elephants, it was clear, would have to swim, since walking the naked railway ties was impossible for them.
        The Rains Came
        11
        Tom, playing a minute ahead of his rival, kept finding his ball in the bunkers he had shored up with railway ties.
        Tommy's honor: the story of old tom morris and young tom morris,...
        12
        I built little huts of discarded railway ties, and lit camp-fires, for I was fearful of the crawling things I saw by day.
        The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
        13
        We also pulled out two fellows who had nearly drowned crossing a piece of water on waterlogged wooden crosses made of old railway ties.
        The forgotten soldier