railhead

1. 1.

   a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution

   Broaderstorehouse
2. 2.

   the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway

   Broaderend

Other forms of railhead

plural

railheads·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about railhead

What does railhead mean?

railhead means "a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in railhead?

railhead has 3 syllables: ra-il-head. The stress falls on "ra".

Is railhead a common word?

railhead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.