guide rail
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The tractor-trailer overturned and began to go over the guide rail of a bridge, according to New York State Police.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
State police said the bus driver lost control and the bus struck a center guide rail then an embankment and traveled approximately 150 feet into a wooded area before coming to a stop.
From Fox News ● Sep. 19, 2021
“People want a guide rail to hang onto, which fiction can provide.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2017
Part of the undercarriage of the train acts as the motor's fixed coils, while a vertical guide rail in the center of the pathway takes the place of its spinning rotor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up a narrow, steep, wooden stairway between two walls of solid masonry, not over two feet apart, we passed, and arrived on a none too stable wooded runway with a guide rail on either side.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Gibbons, Floyd
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