track spike

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noun

a chisel-pointed spike used to secure the rails of a railroad track to wooden ties.

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Felix has been running in a Saysh track spike at the Olympic Trials, and she will do the same in Tokyo at the Games.
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If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.
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Workers built a temporary rail track through the city to move the statue in a process that took three days.
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I was there to track down the family of one of the most notorious defectors in Cuban history.
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It looks like Amazon is on track to get additional Pentagon contracts as well.
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Its inclusion in Record of the Year is on track with the recent trend of all nominees being chart-toppers.
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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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