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UK
/ɹˈeɪlhɛd/
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NOUN
- a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution
- the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway
How To Use railhead In A Sentence
- It pisses me off to be knocked to the side of the road by wankers speeding by with their bikes on the cartop only to catch them at a trailhead. The Irrelevancy of Time: Bicycle Products Don't Spoil
- It looked more like a castle than a railhead, with solid stone walls pierced by tiny loopholes.
- In his day he guided for the Texas Rangers and drove cattle north to the railheads.
- We'd be happy to distribute maps, publish guidebooks, plow roads, and build trailheads.
- With the improvement in roads, cattle and sheep could be loaded at the station reducing the need for droving stock to railheads.
- A day or two later in the trailhead parking lot, horses loaded into the trailer, Ennis was ready to head back to Signal, Jack up to Lightning Flat to see the old man.
- The direct route from Termez railhead, across the Oxus, was too vulnerable to guerrillas, hence the choice of Qizil Qala. KARA KUSH
- By the 1920s a state-subsidized system of grain elevators, silos, and storage at railheads helped to ease the cycle of glut and scarcity.
- It was a long haul across the highland roads to the nearest airport and railhead at Inverness.
- Right and left parallel clanging ringing a doubledecker and a singledeck moved from their railheads, swerved to the down line, glided parallel. — Ulysses
