metals

• Homophone: meddles

metals

1. plural of metal
2. (rail transport) the rail tracks owned by a company or organisation; a rail network

   It was appropriate that 'King' number 6000 began the return to steam on British Rail metals in 1971.

   • 1901, Kipling, Kim, ch. 8

     Now and again a night train roared along the metals within twenty feet of him; but he had all the Oriental’s indifference to mere noise, and it did not even weave a dream through his slumber.

   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 7

     They stood on the foot-bridge over Boathouse Station and looked at the metals gleaming coldly.

metals

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metal

• lamest, malest, samlet

metals n

1. genitive singular indefinite of metal