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Word: Railbed
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century; earliest use found in ‘Mark Twain’ (1835–1910), author and lecturer (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Definition:
A bed of gravel, broken stone, etc., upon which the rails are laid for a railway.
