Railroad Tie

Definition: Railroad Tie

Railroad Tie

Noun

1. One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track; "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Industry

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Railroad Tie

Crosswords: Railroad Tie

Danish

svelle (crosstie, railway sleeper, sill, skid, sleeper, tie), jernbanesvelle (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), jernbane-og sporvejssvelle (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), banesvelle (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie). (various references)

Dutch

wisselhout (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), dwarsligger voor spoorwegen (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), dwarsligger (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), biels (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie). (various references)

Finnish

ratapölkky (crosstie, cross-tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie). (various references)

French

traverse pour voies ferrées (railway sleeper), traverse de chemin de fer (railway sleeper), traverse (cross rail, railway sleeper). (various references)

German

Schwelle (apron, barrier, crosstie, floor, invert, limit, railway sleeper, ramp, sill, sleeper, submerged bridge wall, sunken barrier, threshold, tie, treshold, Whitney key, Woodruff key), Eisenbahnschwelle (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), Bahnschwelle (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie). (various references)

Greek 

στρωτήρας σιδηροδρομικών γραμμών (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie). (various references)

Indonesian

ambang (threshold). (various references)

Italian

traversina per strade ferrate (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), traversina ferroviaria (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), traversina della ferrovia (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), traversina (crosstie, flight, paddle, railway sleeper, scraper, sleeper, tie, trimmer), traversa (arbor, arch, barrage, beam, bolster, bunk, check dam, cross beam, crossbar, crossbeam, crosspiece, crossroad, crosstie, ledger, rail, railway sleeper, side street, sleeper, strut, tie, tie beam, tiepiece, top brace, transom, transome, transverse strut, traverse, waling, weir). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

枕木 (sleeper). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まくらぎ (sleeper). (various references)

Pig Latin

ailroadray ietay.(various references)

Portuguese

travessa para vias férreas (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), travessa de madeira para vias férreas (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), travessa (arch, bystreet, course, cross beam, cross girder, cross member, cross truss, cross-bar, cross-beam, crosscut, cross-measure drift, cross-member, crosstie, cross-tie, dish, horizontal girder, Lane, platter, rail, railway sleeper, sleeper, stretcher, stringe board, stringer, tie, tie beam, tiepiece, top brace, transverse girder, traverse), chulipa (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie). (various references)

Spanish

traviesa para vías férreas (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), traviesa (crossbeam, crossing, crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie, waling). (various references)

Swedish

syll (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), sliper (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), järnvägssyll (crosstie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: editorial, irradiate.

-3 letters: adroiter, arterial, idolater, lariated, radiator, railroad, retailor, tailored.

-4 letters: aerator, airdate, areolar, dariole, delator, deliria, dilater, dilator, diorite, dirtier, lardier, laterad, leotard, radiale, radiate, realtor, redtail, relator, retrial, roilier, tardier, tarried, tiaraed, trailed, trailer.

-5 letters: adorer, adroit, aerial, airier, airted, alated, alodia, aortae, aortal, areola, arider, ariled, artier, atrial, darter, dartle, derail, detail, dialer, dilate, dotier, editor, eidola, errata, iodate, iolite, irater, irreal, laired, larder, lariat, latria, loader, loiter, oilier, orated, ordeal, radial, raider, railed, railer, realia, redial, relaid, reload, retail, retard, retial, retold, retral, rialto, rioted, rioter, ritard, roadie, roared, roiled, tailed, tailer, tailor, tarred, tidier, tirade, tirled, toiled, toiler, torrid, trader, triode.

+4 letters: extraordinarily, proletarianised, proletarianized, radiometrically.

+5 letters: intergradational.

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