RAILROAD

I. noun Date: 1825 a permanent road having a line of rails fixed to ties and laid on a roadbed and providing a track for cars or equipment drawn by locomotives or propelled by self-contained motors, II. verb Date: 1877 transitive verb 1. to convict with undue haste and by means of false charges or insufficient evidence, to push through hastily or without due consideration, to transport by ~, intransitive verb to work for a ~ company, ~er noun