Rāil'road or Rāil'wāy, n.

n. A road or way on which iron rails are laid for wheels to run on, for the conveyance of heavy loads in vehicles.

Build pyramids, gauge railroads, reign, reap, dine. E. B. Browning.

Railway-plant, the tools, machinery, locomotive, trucks, &c., for building and working railways. [Eng.] Simmonds.—Railway-slide, a turn-table. Simmonds.