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sand drags

sand drags is the plural of sand drag.

Meaning of sand drag

Noun

sand drag (plural sand drags)

  1. (UK) A pile of sand or earth at the end of a siding or bay platform, intended to stop trains that overrun or pass through trap points set for a siding.
    • Sand drags are usually laid in as an extension of trap sidings or of lines from catch-points. The rails are boxed in for some distance on either side, and the box is filled with sand, or, preferably, coarse gravel, the intention being, as the name implies, that the sand will act as a drag, and help...1941 August, “The Why and the Wherefore: Sand Drags”, in Railway Magazine, page 382

Questions about sand drags

What is sand drags the plural of?
Sand drags is the plural of sand drag.

Words near sand drags in the dictionary

  1. sand dollars
  2. sand dome
  3. sand domes
  4. sand down
  5. sand drag
  6. sand drags
  7. sand dune
  8. sand dunes
  9. sand duning
  10. sand eel
  11. sand eels

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