“She gripped the hand rail in the lift tightly as the earth shuddered beneath her.”
“I stepped out of the car into a narrow corridor blocked by a rail and a desk behind which sat another uniformed gun-toter.”
“At Port Henry, one stretch of rail was laid in the early part of June, 1937.”
railroad
(chiefly US) A permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
(chiefly US) The transportation system comprising such roads and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
(chiefly US) A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such roads and usually associated assets
(figuratively) A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
“A career railroader, Mitchell was hired by the Missouri Pacific in 1968 as a bridge and building helper.”
“Over the last couple of years, however, the third-generation railroader has dramatically changed the way he operates trains.”
“He spent most of his early working life as a railroader, eventually becoming the chief assistant engineer of the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway.”
“Stilling himself relates how, when one at the table directed a gibe at him, it was Goethe who rebuked the railer.”
“To the skeptic and railer, Amittai is as an unknown quantity in an algebraic problem.”
“It tends to reduce him to the status of a scurrilous railer, despite the fact that some of Jonson's most graceful and humane verses are based closely upon that poet's work.”