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Definition of Split rail
1. Noun. A rail that is split from a log.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Split Rail
Literary usage of Split rail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1903)
"This will allow the split rail to fit properly to the bent rail, and line nicely
... Since the split rail, while being made and after the base is planed, ..."
2. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1904)
"This will allow the split rail to fit properly to the bent rail, and line nicely
... Since the split rail, while being made and after the base is planed, ..."
3. The Trackman's Helper by Joseph Kindelan (1894)
"This rail should be taken out of the track and bent at a point a short distance
ahead of the point of split rail. It should then be put back in the track ..."
4. Railway Engineering by Cecil B Smith (1899)
"... safety switch has one movable split rail, and a stationary split rail or
half-frog and guard rail. The movable rail and guard rail guide the wheels onto ..."
5. Railway Engineering by Cecil Brunswick Smith (1899)
"... safety switch has one movable split rail, and a stationary split rail or
half-frog and guard rail. The movable rail and guard rail guide the wheels onto ..."
6. The Essex Antiquarian by Sidney Perley (1897)
"The split-rail fence is also old. Logs, generally of ash, about nine feet in ...
Of such split SPLIT-RAIL FENCE. sections posts were also made, having holes ..."
7. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1898)
"... and to safely and securely block for a distance of five feet from the eud of
each and every split rail between such split rail aud the adjacent rail ..."
8. The Trackman's Helper: A Pocket Companion for Track Foreman Generally by Joseph Kindelan (1891)
"This rail should be bent carefully, so that it will be perfectly straight from
the point of split rail, back to a point square with the heel of the split ..."
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