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rail head

rail head noun: the top part of a railway rail; the part of the rail the wheel runs on.

Noun

rail head (plural rail heads)

  1. The top part of a railway rail; the part of the rail the wheel runs on.

rail head meaning in Bengali

rail head in Bengali

একটি রেললাইনের ওপরের অংশ

Forms of rail head

pluralrail heads

Origin of rail head

From rail + head in the sense of top.

Questions about rail head

What does rail head mean?
Rail head means the top part of a railway rail; the part of the rail the wheel runs on.
What is rail head in Bengali?
Rail head in Bengali is একটি রেললাইনের ওপরের অংশ. See Rail head meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is rail head?
Rail head is a noun.
What is the plural of rail head?
The plural of rail head is rail heads.

Words near rail head in the dictionary

  1. rail grinder
  2. rail grinders
  3. rail gun
  4. rail guns
  5. rail hail
  6. rail head
  7. rail heads
  8. rail joint
  9. rail joints
  10. rail line
  11. rail lines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rail head (page history and authors); rail head (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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