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In recent use, traffic by means of railroads; railroads, and especially streetrailroads, collectively; the interests and rights represented by such railroads.
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The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; specifically, in physiology, contraction, as of a muscle.
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The act of drawing a body along a surface, as over water or on a railway.
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Attraction; attractive power or influence.
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The adhesive friction of a body or object, as of a wheel on a rail or a rope on a pulley.
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An action the negative of pressure.
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In physiology, the axis or direction of the tractive action of a muscle; the line in which a muscle contracts.