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A truck for railroad rolling stock, consisting of two ordinary axle boxes sliding in guides attached to a triangular frame; -- called also pony truck.

To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.

A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below. A block of shares (Stock Exchange), a large number of shares in a stock company, sold in a lump. Bartlett. -- Block printing. (a) A mode of printing (common in China and Japan) from engraved boards by means of a sheet of paper laid on the…

A moral stain or blot. Lest she . . . will with her railing set a great blur on mine honesty and good name. Udall.

To enter, as a railway car. [Colloq. U. S.]

certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.

The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.

a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.

A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator. [Colloq. U. S.]

To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc.

One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.

A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.

, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway. Most of the branches , or streams, were dried up. W. Irving.

A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.

wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.

A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.

er, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.

The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.