What is to cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. Lardner called?
derail — To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. Lardner. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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