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railway key

railway key noun: a key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees.

Noun

railway key (plural railway keys)

  1. A key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees.
    • It was more like a model of an antediluvian railway key than anything else.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Forms of railway key

pluralrailway keys

Questions about railway key

What does railway key mean?
Railway key means a key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees.
What part of speech is railway key?
Railway key is a noun.
What is the plural of railway key?
The plural of railway key is railway keys.

Words near railway key in the dictionary

  1. railway carriages
  2. railway crossing
  3. railway crossings
  4. railway gun
  5. railway guns
  6. railway key
  7. railway keys
  8. railway line
  9. railway lines
  10. railway poplar
  11. railway signal

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