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File Name: 58888_rail_tongs
Description: "Track-layers' tongs for lifting rails. They have short jaws designed to clasp the rail head and two long handles bent at a right angle." -Whitney, 1911
Source: Whitney, William Dwight The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York: The Century Co., 1911) 8: supplement, rail-feeder - rain
Keywords: railroad track, rail tongs, railway tool, lifting rails, handles

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