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   rail-splitter
         n 1: a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences [syn:
               {rail-splitter}, {splitter}]

English Dictionary: Rolle spielen by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
realizable
adj
  1. capable of being realized; "realizable benefits of the plan"
  2. capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do
    Synonym(s): accomplishable, achievable, doable, manageable, realizable
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rule-governed
adj
  1. according to custom or rule or natural law [syn: lawful, rule-governed]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rules of order
n
  1. a body of rules followed by an assembly [syn: order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Railroad \Rail"road`\, Railway \Rail"way`\, n.
      1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of
            iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks
            for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a
            bed or substructure.
  
      Note: The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of
               the older tramway.
  
      2. The road, track, etc., with al the lands, buildings,
            rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and
            constituting one property; as, certain railroad has been
            put into the hands of a receiver.
  
      Note: Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the
               commoner word in the United States.
  
      Note: In the following and similar phrases railroad and
               railway are used interchangeably:
  
      {Atmospheric railway}, {Elevated railway}, etc. See under
            {Atmospheric}, {Elevated}, etc.
  
      {Cable railway}. See {Cable road}, under {Cable}.
  
      {Perry railway}, a submerged track on which an elevated
            platform runs, fro carrying a train of cars across a water
            course.
  
      {Gravity railway}, a railway, in a hilly country, on which
            the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long
            distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an
            elevated point by stationary engines.
  
      {Railway brake}, a brake used in stopping railway cars or
            locomotives.
  
      {Railway car}, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels
            fitted for running on a railway. [U.S.]
  
      {Railway carriage}, a railway passenger car. [Eng.]
  
      {Railway scale}, a platform scale bearing a track which forms
            part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars.
           
  
      {Railway slide}. See {Transfer table}, under {Transfer}.
  
      {Railway spine} (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe
            concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad
            accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other
            disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain
            in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral
            disturbance, -- the symptoms often not developing till
            some months after the injury.
  
      {Underground railroad} [or] {railway}.
            (a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as
                  beneath the streets of a city.
            (b) Formerly, a system of co[94]peration among certain
                  active antislavery people in the United States, by
                  which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach
                  Canada.
  
      Note: [In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was
               used.] [bd]Their house was a principal entrep[93]t of
               the underground railroad.[b8] --W. D. Howells.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Clapper \Clap"per\, n.
      1. A person who claps.
  
      2. That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or
            the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See
            Illust. of {Bell}.
  
      {Clapper rail} (Zo[94]l.), an Americam species of rail
            ({Rallus scepitans}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Re89ligible \Re*[89]l"i*gi*ble\
      (r[emc]*[ecr]l"[icr]*j[icr]*b'l), a.
      Eligible again; capable of re[89]lection; as, re[89]ligible
      to the same office. -- {Re*[89]l`i*gi*bil"i*ty}
      (r[emc]*[ecr]l`[icr]*j[icr]*b[icr]l"[icr]*t[ycr]), n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Re89ligible \Re*[89]l"i*gi*ble\
      (r[emc]*[ecr]l"[icr]*j[icr]*b'l), a.
      Eligible again; capable of re[89]lection; as, re[89]ligible
      to the same office. -- {Re*[89]l`i*gi*bil"i*ty}
      (r[emc]*[ecr]l`[icr]*j[icr]*b[icr]l"[icr]*t[ycr]), n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Realizable \Re"al*i`za*ble\, a.
      Capable of being realized.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relaxable \Re*lax"a*ble\ (-?-b'l), a.
      Capable of being relaxed.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relay governor \Relay governor\
      A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the
      relay principle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Releasable \Re*leas"a*ble\ (r?-l?s"?-b'l), a.
      That may be released.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relishable \Rel"ish*a*ble\ (-?-b'l), a.
      Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste;
      gratifying.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
            (b) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a
                  record; also, a catalogue; a list.
  
                           The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the
                           petitions, answers, and transactions in
                           Parliament, are extant.               --Sir M. Hale.
  
                           The roll and list of that army doth remain.
                                                                              --Sir J.
                                                                              Davies.
            (c) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as,
                  a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
            (d) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  
      4. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled
            or doubled upon itself.
  
      5. (Naut.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to
            side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise
            and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
  
      6. A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or
            of thunder.
  
      7. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as
            scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  
      8. Part; office; duty; r[93]le. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
  
      {Long roll} (Mil.), a prolonged roll of the drums, as the
            signal of an attack by the enemy, and for the troops to
            arrange themselves in line.
  
      {Master of the rolls}. See under {Master}.
  
      {Roll call}, the act, or the time, of calling over a list
            names, as among soldiers.
  
      {Rolls of court}, {of parliament} (or of any public body),
            the parchments or rolls on which the acts and proceedings
            of that body are engrossed by the proper officer, and
            which constitute the records of such public body.
  
      {To call the roll}, to call off or recite a list or roll of
            names of persons belonging to an organization, in order to
            ascertain who are present or to obtain responses from
            those present.
  
      Syn: List; schedule; catalogue; register; inventory. See
               {List}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Royal spade \Royal spade\ (Auction Bridge)
      A spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every
      trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score
      value of 9; -- usually in pl.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Reelsville, IN
      Zip code(s): 46171

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Rolesville, NC (town, FIPS 57640)
      Location: 35.92755 N, 78.45705 W
      Population (1990): 572 (227 housing units)
      Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 27571

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Rowlesburg, WV (town, FIPS 70588)
      Location: 39.34849 N, 79.67744 W
      Population (1990): 648 (295 housing units)
      Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
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