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nounrailway sleeper (plural railway sleepers)
plural railway sleepers · alternative railroad sleeper
- UKrail transportA railroad tie.
West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56
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railway sleeper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/railway%20sleeper
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