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Sherman neckties

Sherman neckties is the plural 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

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What is Sherman neckties the plural of?
Sherman neckties is the plural of Sherman necktie.

Words near Sherman neckties in the dictionary

  1. sherm-head
  2. sherm-heads
  3. Sherman
  4. Sherman County
  5. Sherman necktie
  6. Sherman neckties
  7. Sherman Oaks
  8. Sherman statement
  9. Sherman statements
  10. Sherman's bow tie
  11. Sherman's bow ties

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