guide rail
Americannoun
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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
Raf clutched at the guide rail, the presence of which suggested that not all the users of this road were as nonchalant as the officer who tripped lightly ahead.
From Star Born by Andre Norton
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