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An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones.
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A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.
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A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
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A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
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A staith or framework from which coal is discharged from cars into vessels.
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To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.
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To loose, as dogs, from their couples; also, to set loose; to disconnect; to disjoin; as, to uncouple railroad cars.
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Low, fertile land; a river valley.
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A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
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Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.
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Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.
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To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
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To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
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A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.
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A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
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A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.
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An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.
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That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
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A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
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A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
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