Underground railroad ∨ railway Meaning, Definition & Usage
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(a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as beneath the streets of a city .(b) Formerly, a system of coöperation among certain active antislavery people in the United States, by which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach Canada .In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was used. "Their house was a principal entrepôt of the underground railroad." W. D. Howells.
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- . See under
Railroad .
