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Sherman's necktie

Sherman's necktie is the alternative form of Sherman necktie.

Meaning of Sherman necktie

Noun

Sherman necktie (plural Sherman neckties)

  1. (US, historical, in plural) A segment of rail that has been heated and twisted into a loop, as a means of destroying a railway.
    • We were compelled to go by carriage, as the railroads had been destroyed, the fat-pine cross-ties burned to heat the rails and the red-hot rails wrapped around the trees growing near the track. We used to call these iron rails "Sherman's neckties," and the solemn-looking chimneys standing guard...[1917, James Morris Morgan, chapter XXVIII, in Recollections of a Rebel Reefer, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, page 244

Forms of Sherman's necktie

pluralSherman's neckties

Questions about Sherman's necktie

What is Sherman's necktie the alternative form of?
Sherman's necktie is the alternative form of Sherman necktie.

Words near Sherman's necktie in the dictionary

  1. Sherman statements
  2. Sherman's bow tie
  3. Sherman's bow ties
  4. Sherman's hairpin
  5. Sherman's hairpins
  6. Sherman's necktie
  7. Sherman's neckties
  8. Shermanbury
  9. Shermanesque
  10. Shermanian
  11. Shermanite

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