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scissors crossovers

scissors crossovers is the plural of scissors crossover.

Meaning of scissors crossover

Noun

scissors crossover (plural scissors crossovers)

  1. A superimposed pair of railway crossovers, resembling the letter X, permitting travel in either direction between a pair of parallel tracks.
    • Here the line is joined by the Colne Valley branch, and both tracks are carried into Haverhill station upon a high embankment from which the town can be seen on the south side. The twin tracks, after traversing a scissors crossover, become the down and up roads through the station, which possesses...1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619

Questions about scissors crossovers

What is scissors crossovers the plural of?
Scissors crossovers is the plural of scissors crossover.

Words near scissors crossovers in the dictionary

  1. scissors crises
  2. scissors crisis
  3. scissors crossing
  4. scissors crossings
  5. scissors crossover
  6. scissors crossovers
  7. scissors kick
  8. scissors kicks
  9. scissors paper rock
  10. scissors paper stone
  11. scissors-and-paste

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