railroad tie

English

A railway track. The short wooden bars are railroad ties, and the long metal bars are railway lines.

railroad tie (plural railroad ties)

(rail transport, US) A heavy, preserved piece of hewn timber laid crossways to and supporting the rails of a railroad or a member of similar shape and function of another material such as concrete.
A long, thin wooden beam used as a border in driveways, to hold in soil in gardens, etc.

piece supporting the rails of a railroad

Bulgarian: траверса (bg) f (traversa)
Catalan: travessa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 枕木 (zh) (zhěnmù)
Czech: pražec (cs) m, železniční pražec m
Danish: svelle c
Dutch: dwarsligger (nl) m, biels (nl) c, biel (nl) c
Esperanto: ŝpalo
Finnish: ratapölkky (fi)
French: traverse (fr) f
German: Schwelle (de) f, Bahnschwelle (de) f, Eisenbahnschwelle f
Hungarian: faalj
Ido: traverso (io)
Italian: traversa (it) f
Japanese: 枕木 (ja) (まくらぎ, makuragi)
Korean: 침목 (chimmok)
Maori: kurupae
Mongolian: (төмөр замын) дэр мод ((tömör zamyn) der mod) (ᠲᠡᠮᠦᠷ
ᠵᠠᠮ ᠤᠨ)
ᠳᠡᠷ᠎ᠡ
ᠮᠣᠳᠤ ((temür ǰam-un) der'e modu)
Norman: dormiéthe f
Norwegian: sville m
Polish: podkład (pl) m
Portuguese: travessa (pt) f (Portugal), dormente (pt) m (Brazil)
Romanian: traversă (ro) f
Russian: шпа́ла (ru) f (špála)
Spanish: durmiente (es) m, traviesa (es) f
Swedish: sliper (sv) c, syll (sv) c
Tagalog: trabyesa
Thai: ไม้หมอน (mái-mɔ̌ɔn)
Turkish: travers (tr)