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Meanings of railway sleeper in inglés

ruso
пропитанная шпала
portugués
travessa
español
durmiente
catalán
travessa
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Support for the rails in railroad tracks.

durmiente
Usage of railway sleeper in inglés
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Roland says that for every railway sleeper, there was one death.
Radio NZ
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He said Mr Scargill struck himself accidentally against what looked like a railway sleeper.
The Guardian
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The railway sleeper bench, for example, bears the original drill holes and the mark where the track plates were.
The Guardian
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Turning a railway sleeper into a bench isn't easy, either - drilling through a 70kg piece of oak is a struggle.
The Guardian
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Kids play in a refuse pit between tossed aside railway sleepers.
Unmanned
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The slipstream spun them beyond the railway sleepers, into a drift.
Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident
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It is extensively used for wood-paving, piles, jetties, bridges, boat-building, furniture, and railway sleepers.
Spinifex and Sand / A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Ex...
8
Great underground towns, twenty feet below the surface, all roofed in with steel railway sleepers.
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign
9
IN MY GARDEN I HAVE … Some vintage railway sleepers as the garden bed border.
News.com.au
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Wildbore Book Cover Bush Whacker Camp Bush Burn Car in Totara Reserve Carting railway sleepers.
Radio NZ
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They make it into fleece clothing or railway sleepers.
News.com.au
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A great source of cheap, grade-A railway sleepers.
The Guardian
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As a young and fit man Roland was sent to work reconstituting railway sleepers for the 'death railway'.
Radio NZ
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Outline the paper "garden" with an edging of bricks, logs, railway sleepers or whatever you fancy.
The Irish Times
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A simple slogan had been put up by two industrious ladies that said, 'We knit nighties for railway sleepers!'.
Raising Steam
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The wood cladding on the outside of Broadhurst Park references railway sleepers and United's Newton Heath train company origins.
The Guardian