Lexicographical Neighbors of Sliprail
Literary usage of Sliprail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mines of South Australia, Including Also an Account of the Smelting by J. B. Austin (1863)
"... and the hills becoming more precipitous, until he enters a gorge or gap only
a few rods across, and here, as usual, there is a fence with a sliprail. ..."
2. The mines of South Australia by J B. Austin (1863)
"... and the hills becoming more precipitous, until he enters a gorge or gap only
a few rods across, and here, as usual, there is a fence with a sliprail. ..."
3. Australian Life by Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1892)
"The sliprail was open and the fence apparently unbroken, and he swept through
and up to the old red ship- tank that had fallen off its supports and lay on ..."
4. Madam Constantia: The Romance of a Prisoner of War in the Revolution (South by Jefferson Carter (1919)
"At last I was aware that my companion had alighted — perhaps he had done so more
than once — to pull down a sliprail. This time, whether it ..."
5. Pictorial Geographical Readers: Africa and Australasia by Longmans, Green, and Co, Green Longmans, and Co (1904)
"In passing through the gates, which upon this run were employed as an improvement
upon the more ordinary and cumbersome sliprail, the number would be still ..."
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