Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis; esp. (Arch.),
all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively. You have added to your natural endowments the superstructure of study. Dryden.
The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
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