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Meanings of railway tie in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sleeper"
Examples for "sleeper"
1
Pockets of resistance remained in west Mosul, including sleeper cells, Mattis said.
2
The pose of the Indian was the natural one of a sleeper.
3
Catherine lost her super-sleeper status after complex shoulder surgery two years ago.
4
The pillows were arranged-thedraught given; but the sleeper never awoke again.
5
The regular breathing of the sleeper proclaimed the soundness of his slumber.
1
It leaned against the woodpile to the left, thick as a railroad crosstie.
2
And then I'd sleep like a weathered crosstie.
3
Sleeper - Railroad crosstie.
4
The crosstie the boy had stepped on had given way almost entirely and flopped downward lazily, swinging on a rotten rivet.
5
The bridge was okay, but the idea that I could balance me and a motorcycle on one narrow crosstie was a complete failure.
1
The man would've made a railroad tie look like Charles Atlas.
2
The life of the average railroad tie is at least doubled by such treatment.
3
She set the glass down on the railroad tie.
4
He pointed to a railroad tie and kept going.
5
He jumped a rotten railroad tie in the lot.
1
Roland says that for every railway sleeper, there was one death.
2
He said Mr Scargill struck himself accidentally against what looked like a railway sleeper.
3
The railway sleeper bench, for example, bears the original drill holes and the mark where the track plates were.
4
Turning a railway sleeper into a bench isn't easy, either - drilling through a 70kg piece of oak is a struggle.
5
Kids play in a refuse pit between tossed aside railway sleepers.
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.
2
Such impregnation methods double or treble the life of railway ties.
3
Then the last scene will probably be Eskimos laying railway ties.
4
The pressure-treated wood segment includes railway ties, utility poles, residential lumber and industrial products.
5
We crossed a large stream where railway ties were being rafted down the river.
6
They quietly walked toward it, scrambling over old railway ties that had never been laid.
7
He takes the railway ties several at a time, all the while calling out encouragement to Jesse.
8
The Forestry Service under the Engineer Corps has cut the greater part of the timber and railway ties required.
9
Railway ties, however, cost nothing.
10
The elephants, it was clear, would have to swim, since walking the naked railway ties was impossible for them.
11
Tom, playing a minute ahead of his rival, kept finding his ball in the bunkers he had shored up with railway ties.
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.
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.
Translations for railway tie
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