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trackbeds

trackbeds is the plural 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

Questions about trackbeds

What is trackbeds the plural of?
Trackbeds is the plural of trackbed.

Words near trackbeds in the dictionary

  1. trackbar
  2. trackbarrow
  3. trackbarrows
  4. trackbars
  5. trackbed
  6. trackbeds
  7. tracked
  8. tracked and traced
  9. tracked down
  10. tracked with
  11. trackee

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