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track bed

track bed is the alternative form of trackbed.

Meaning of trackbed

Noun

trackbed (plural trackbeds)

  1. The layer of gravel or other foundation on which a railway track is laid.
    • Given a mandate to build a new railway from the trackbed up, the Japanese have seized an unprecedented opportunity, not only to apply to its equipment their immense technological resources, but to incorporate in its operational scheme the Utopian concepts which those modernising an existing line...1963 October, G[eoffrey] Freeman Allen, R. K. Evans, “The Japanese National Railways and the New Tokaido Line”, in Modern Railways, Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 238
    Synonyms:
    bed, railbed
  2. (broadly) The land on which a railway (especially one that has been closed or dismantled) was built; the roadbed for a railroad.
    • Holonym: right of way

Forms of track bed

pluraltrack beds

Questions about track bed

What is track bed the alternative form of?
Track bed is the alternative form of trackbed.

Words near track bed in the dictionary

  1. track
  2. track and bowl system
  3. track and bowl systems
  4. track and field
  5. track and trace
  6. track bed
  7. track beds
  8. track bike
  9. track bikes
  10. track brake
  11. track brakes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: track bed (page history and authors); trackbed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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