A road composed of parallel steel rails supported by ties and providing a track for locomotive-drawn trains or other wheeled vehicles, In the United states before the abolition of slavery, a secret arrangement for enabling slaves to escape Info tree territory, by passing them along from one point of concealment to another till they reached Canada or some other place of safety, a brake used in stopping railway cars or locomotives, verb_ compel by coercion, threats, or crude means, transport by railroad, supply with railroad lines, transitive verb_ Colloq., U. S. To carry or send by railroad; usually fig., to send or put through at high speed or in great haste; to hurry or rush unduly, To transport via railroad, To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution, intransitive verb_ To convict (an accused person) without a fair trial or on trumped-up charges, To supply (an area) with railroads