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noun 
  1. A train on a branch line
    • 1975, Indiana Historical Society, Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 71, no. 1 (Mar. 1975), page 355
    • : " by bailing from near streams with buckets, (the brake-man called this operation jerking water) and from this the road gets its name of road.
adjective 
  1. (US, colloquial, pejorative) Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, backward
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