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Runway

noun

A bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll. Synonyms: rail, rails, track.

A chute down which logs can slide.

A narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc..

A strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land.

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"Runway" Quotes from Famous Books

... back to consciousness, were observing him with bright, quick, wild-animal eyes, Kwaque followed so close at his heels as to step upon them and make him stumble. Whereupon he loaded Kwaque with his trove and put him in front to lead along the runway to the beach. And for the rest of the way to the steamer, Dag Daughtry grinned and chuckled at sight of his plunder and at sight of Kwaque, who fantastically titubated and ambled along, ...

— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London

... hunting excursion, Landseer was stationed on a runway, gun in hand, with a gillie in attendance. The dogs started a fine buck, which ran close to them, but instead of leveling his gun, Landseer shoved the weapon into the hands of the astonished gillie with the hurried whispered ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters • Elbert Hubbard

... Striding along the narrow runway of ice-glazed planks with the assurance of goats, the three at last passed under the main traveller, a huge structure of eleven hundred tons' weight that straddled the bridge's sides and rose higher than the towers. Its electromagnetic cranes were folded together and cemented in place ...

— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

... further invitation I bolted up the winding runway which led to the second floor, and entering a great chamber at the front of the building was greeted by the frenzied Woola, who threw his great carcass upon me, nearly hurling me to the floor; the poor old fellow was so glad to see me that ...

— A Princess of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... the total number of airports or airfields recognizable from the air. The runway(s) may be paved (concrete or asphalt surfaces) or unpaved (grass, earth, sand, or gravel surfaces) but may include closed or abandoned installations. Airports or airfields that are no longer recognizable (overgrown, ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... cabins were connected by a long covered runway, so that one could pass from the pilot-house to the motor-room and back again through ...

— Tom Swift and his Aerial Warship - or, The Naval Terror of the Seas • Victor Appleton

Words linked to "Runway" : slideway, tramway, airfield, rail, landing field, third rail, strip, railroad track, field, airstrip, slide, railway, railroad, sloping trough, landing strip, flying field, bar, track, tramline, chute, platform, rails, streetcar track, paved surface, flight strip