railway key

English

Noun

railway key (plural railway keys)

  1. (rail transport) A key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees.
    • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎:
      It was more like a model of an antediluvian railway key than anything else.
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