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Definition of Platelayer
1. Noun. A workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks.
Definition of Platelayer
1. Noun. (U.K.) A railway employee who inspects and maintains the permanent way of a railway installation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platelayer
Literary usage of Platelayer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Livelihood: Dramatic Reveries by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1917)
"... THE platelayer Tapping the rails as he went by And driving the slack wedges
tight, He walked towards the morning sky Between two golden lines of light ..."
2. "Cape Times" Law Reports: A Record of Every Matter Disposed of in the by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Supreme Court (1906)
"It is also called a platelayer's cottage. That is wholly separate property,
acquired by the. department after the original construction of the railway, ..."
3. A Book about Travelling, Past and Present by Thomas A Croal (1877)
"platelayer AND SIGNALMAN. The platelayer and the signalman come next in order,
... The signalman and the platelayer are more distinctly born of the railway ..."
4. Livelihood: Dramatic Reveries by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1917)
"... THE platelayer Tapping the rails as he went by And driving the slack wedges
tight, He walked towards the morning sky Between two golden lines of light ..."
5. "Cape Times" Law Reports: A Record of Every Matter Disposed of in the by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Supreme Court (1906)
"It is also called a platelayer's cottage. That is wholly separate property,
acquired by the. department after the original construction of the railway, ..."
6. A Book about Travelling, Past and Present by Thomas A Croal (1877)
"platelayer AND SIGNALMAN. The platelayer and the signalman come next in order,
... The signalman and the platelayer are more distinctly born of the railway ..."
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