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RAILHEAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("railhead" is a kind of...):
depot; entrepot; storage; store; storehouse (a depository for goods)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The end of the completed track on an unfinished railway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("railhead" is a kind of...):
end; terminal (either extremity of something that has length)