Word Meanings - TRACKLAYER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.

Related words: (words related to TRACKLAYER)

• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• PUTTYROOT
  An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called
• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• PUTTER-ON
  An instigator. Shak.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• PUTT
  A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PUTTING GREEN
  The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• TRACKMAN
  One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.
• ENGAGING
  Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• PUTTEE
  See GAITER
• ENGAGEDNESS
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• PUTTOCK
  The European kite. The buzzard. The marsh harrier.
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
• TRICKTRACK
  An old game resembling backgammon.
• DISPLACER
  The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces.