metals
noun B1- The rail tracks owned by a company or organisation; a rail network. · It was appropriate that 'King' number 6000 began the return to steam on British Rail metals in 1971.
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But my people have worn green glasses on their eyes so long that most of them think it really is an Emerald City, and it certainly is a beautiful place, abounding in jewels and precious metals, and every good thing that is needed to make one happy.
While he hammered away at his metals the Dog slept; but when, on the other hand, he went to dinner and began to eat, the Dog woke up and wagged his tail, as if he would ask for a share of his meal.
It was lying wide of the metals upon the left hand of the track as one goes eastward, at a point close to the station, where the line emerges from the tunnel in which it runs.
“This is where the young man’s body lay,” said he, indicating a spot about three feet from the metals.
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