tie bar

A form of tiebar — A flat bar used as a tie in construction work.

Meanings

nountie bar (plural tie bars)

plural tie bars

  1. alternativeAlternative form of tiebar.

    The line from Nyon to La Cure (17½ miles) was opened in 1916, and is on independent track throughout, leaving the road immediately after passing under the Swiss Federal line from Lausanne to Geneva, where grooved tramrails with tie-bars give place to steel-sleepered track.

    1954 September, George Behrend, “The Nyon-St. Cergue-Morez Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 605
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