English edit

Etymology edit

railway +‎ -like

Adjective edit

railwaylike (comparative more railwaylike, superlative most railwaylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a railway.
    • 1858, Robert Smith Surtees, John Leech, Plain or Ringlets?:
      Then Jock would come skating straight down with his horse almost on its haunches, leaving long railwaylike lines behind him, and nearing the bottom would gradually ease out his horse, and shoot away till he came to some other obstruction.