THIRD RAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does third rail mean? 

• THIRD RAIL (noun)
  The noun THIRD RAIL has 1 sense:

1. a rail through which electric current is supplied to an electric locomotive

  Familiarity information: THIRD RAIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRD RAIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rail through which electric current is supplied to an electric locomotive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("third rail" is a kind of...):

rail; rails; runway; track (a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll)