railwaylike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a railway.

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Meanings

adjectiverailwaylike (comparative more railwaylike, superlative most railwaylike)

comparative more railwaylike · superlative most railwaylike

  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.

    1858, Robert Smith Surtees, John Leech, Plain or Ringlets?

Origin

From railway + -like.

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APA

railwaylike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/railwaylike

MLA

“railwaylike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/railwaylike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “railwaylike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/railwaylike.

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