Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An intersection of railway-tracks.
- noun The intersection of a common roadway or highway with the track of a railway.
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Examples
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Over the tops of them was seen a green light, something like the danger signal at a railway-crossing.
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Next morning the Battalion passed their starting-point, the railway-crossing of the Ramleh-Ludd road, at 09.30 and struck eastwards for Jimzu and Jerusalem.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison
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At every bridge and railway-crossing a sentinel, standing in the middle of the road with lifted rifle, stopped the motor and examined our papers.
Fighting France 1915
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'He made his lovely sensitive Arab horse stand with him at the railway-crossing whilst a horrible lot of trucks went by; and the poor thing, she was in a perfect frenzy, a perfect agony.
Women in Love 1907
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Beyond the railway-crossing a muddy lane went along a field of coarse grass under a hedge of thorns and ended at a paling.
Mary Olivier: a Life May Sinclair 1904
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The wagonette stopped by the railway-crossing at Manor Park, and they got out.
Mary Olivier: a Life May Sinclair 1904
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The turnings of life seldom show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899
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At every bridge and railway-crossing a sentinel, standing in the middle of the road with lifted rifle, stopped the motor and examined our papers.
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Edith Wharton 1899
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Over the tops of them was seen a green light, something like the danger signal at a railway-crossing.
Lair of the White Worm Bram Stoker 1879
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At the railway-crossing he met his mother hurrying down, for the news that the _Bessy_ had arrived with a number of shipwrecked people had spread rapidly through the place.
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