slab track

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a railroad track in which the rails are attached to and supported by a bed or slab, usually of concrete.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.
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No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.
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We are so many around here that you'll have to get paper and pencil and mark us down to keep track of how many.
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The print of steel-rimmed hoofs showed in the soft loam as plainly as a moccasin-track in virgin snow.
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Track of the count may be kept by placing a mark for each leukocyte in its appropriate column, ruled upon paper.
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