RAILHEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does railhead mean? 

• RAILHEAD (noun)
  The noun RAILHEAD has 2 senses:

1. a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution

2. the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway

  Familiarity information: RAILHEAD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAILHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("railhead" is a kind of...):

depot; entrepot; storage; store; storehouse (a depository for goods)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The end of the completed track on an unfinished railway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("railhead" is a kind of...):

end; terminal (either extremity of something that has length)