six foot

短语
FREQ #37448

别名

6-foot six-foot

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    the area between the closest rails of two parallel standard gauge railway lines, regardless of the actual distance.

    非正式 不可数 交通

    Cattle are of course liable to stray on the line at these level crossings, but to prevent this, barriers are placed on each side of the crossing, and a deep trench is made in the four-foot and six-foot spaces, …

    He fell wildly, his head struck the carriage footboard with tremdous force, and he bounded into the six-foot, where he rolled over and over …

    As a result, all three wheelsets derails to the six foot side.

词源

From the nominal distance of six feet between two adjacent railway lines in Great Britain.

来源：wiktionary