railroad tie

English

A railway track. The short wooden bars are railroad ties, and the long metal bars are railway lines.

Noun

railroad tie (plural railroad ties)

1. (rail transport, US) A heavy, preserved piece of hewn 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.
2. A long, thin wooden beam used as a border in driveways, to hold in soil in gardens, etc.

Synonyms

• railway tie
• sleeper (UK)
• railway sleeper

Translations

piece supporting the rails of a railroad

• Bulgarian: траверса (bg) f (traversa)
• Catalan: travessa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 枕木 (zh) (zhěnmù)

• 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)
• Maori: kurupae
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дэр мод (der mod)

  Mongolian: ᠳᠡᠷ᠎ᠡ
  ᠮᠣᠳᠤ (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)

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