Meanings
comparative more trainlike · superlative most trainlike
- Resembling or characteristic of a train (rail vehicle).
It has regular ports of call and sails with almost trainlike regularity.
1936, James Christopher Healey, Foc's'le and glory-hole: a study of the merchant seaman and his occupation
Origin
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