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railwaylike

adj

Etymology

From railway + -like.

  1. derived from *weǵʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *wegaz✻
  3. inherited from *weg✻
  4. inherited from weġ
  5. inherited from way
  6. compounded as railway — “rail + way”
  7. suffixed as railwaylike — “railway + like”

Definitions

  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.

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