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Detrain   Listen
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Detrain  v. i. & v. t.  To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. (Eng.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Detrain" Quotes from Famous Books



... when we drew up at last on a siding, where a French general waited with some French and British officers. Colonel Kirby left the train and spoke with the general, and then gave the order for us to detrain at once; and we did so very swiftly, men, and horses, and baggage. Many of us were men of more than one campaign, able to judge by this and by that how sorely we were needed. We knew what it means when the reenforcements look fit for the work in hand. The French general ...
— Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders • Talbot Mundy



Words linked to "Detrain" :   get off



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