railway key

noun

A key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees.

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Meanings

nounrailway key (plural railway keys)

plural railway keys

  1. rail transportA key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees.

    It was more like a model of an antediluvian railway key than anything else.

    1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
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