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plateways

plateways is the plural of plateway.

Meaning of plateway

Noun

plateway (plural plateways)

  1. An early form of railway using L-shaped iron rails.
    • The late Mr. Clement E. Stretton wrote that it was decided in 1785 to lay a plateway "from the dock at Loughborough to Nanpanton, a distance of three miles, but this system of plateway had to be abandoned, as the Road Commissioners would not allow a ledge to project upwards in their road."1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3

Questions about plateways

What is plateways the plural of?
Plateways is the plural of plateway.

Words near plateways in the dictionary

  1. plateskirt
  2. plateskirts
  3. platetrope
  4. plateware
  5. plateway
  6. plateways
  7. platewise
  8. platework
  9. plateworker
  10. plateworkers
  11. platey

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