Railwaylike

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of a railway.

    "Then Jock would come skating straight down with his horse almost on its haunches, leaving long railwaylike lines behind him, and nearing the bottom would gradually ease out his horse, and shoot away till he came to some other obstruction."

Example

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"Then Jock would come skating straight down with his horse almost on its haunches, leaving long railwaylike lines behind him, and nearing the bottom would gradually ease out his horse, and shoot away till he came to some other obstruction."

Etymology

From railway + -like.

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