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noun - One of two iron plates used to fasten rails to a sleeper (on a railway track).
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noun
- A railroad freight car without sides or a roof.
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noun
- A small hopping amphibian.
- A fastener for clothing consisting of a button that fits through a loop.
- The end of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) held by the player.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) road, Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad.
- (context, UK, pejorative, racial slur) A French person.
- (context, Canadian English, pejorative) A French-speaking person from Quebec.
- The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
- An organ on the bottom of a horse"s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
- The part of a railway switch or turnout where the tracks cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse's hoof).
verb (frog, g, ed)
- To unravel a knitted garment.
- To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with trogs.
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noun - A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
- (botany) Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
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