From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
A railway track . The short wooden bars are railroad ties , and the long metal bars are rails . railroad tie plural railroad ties
( rail transport , US ) timber laid crossways to and supporting the rails of a railroad or a member of similar shape and function of another material such as concrete.
Holonyms: railroad track rail track railway track train track permanent way A long, thin wooden beam used as a border in driveways, to hold in soil in gardens, etc. piece supporting the rails of a railroad
Bulgarian: траверса (bg) f ( traversa )
Catalan: travessa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 枕木 (zh) ( zhěnmù ) , 軌枕 / 轨枕 (zh) ( guǐzhěn )
Czech: pražec (cs) m železniční pražec m
Danish: svelle c
Dutch: dwarsligger (nl) m biels (nl) c biel (nl) c
Esperanto: ŝpalo
Finnish: ratapölkky (fi)
French: traverse (fr) f
German: Schwelle (de) f Bahnschwelle (de) f Eisenbahnschwelle f
Hungarian: talpfa (hu)
Ido: traverso (io)
Italian: traversa (it) f
Japanese: 枕木 (ja) ( まくらぎ, makuragi )
Korean: 침목 ( chimmok )
Māori: kurupae
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: дэр мод ( der mod )
Mongolian script: ᠳᠡᠷᠡ ( der-e modu )
Norman: dormiéthe f
Norwegian: sville m
Polish: podkład (pl) m
Portuguese: travessa (pt) f ( Portugal ) , dormente (pt) m ( Brazil )
Romanian: traversă (ro) f
Russian: шпа́ла (ru) f ( špála )
Spanish: durmiente (es) m traviesa (es) f
Swedish: sliper (sv) c syll (sv) c
Tagalog: trabyesa
Thai: ไม้หมอน ( mái-mɔ̌ɔn )
Turkish: travers (tr)
Welsh: sliper m or f
