Road-railer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A road vehicle that can be used on railway track by lowering retractable railway wheels on to the track at a suitable level place.

    ""I had to stand by for half an hour, which is a long time when you're dealing with an incident, until we could get a road-railer up to decant the passengers, get them to the nearest access point and into taxis, so we could deal with the incident."

Synonyms

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road-rail vehiclerrv

Example

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""I had to stand by for half an hour, which is a long time when you're dealing with an incident, until we could get a road-railer up to decant the passengers, get them to the nearest access point and into taxis, so we could deal with the incident."

Etymology

From road-rail + -er.

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