English Dictionary

Sherman necktie

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈʃɜːmən ˈnɛktaɪ/

名詞

アメリカ英語 歴史的 複数形

(US, rail transport, historical, chiefly in the plural) A segment of rail that has been heated and twisted into a loop, as a means of destroying a railway.

日本語の意味

（米国の鉄道歴史用語）鉄道線路の一部が、加熱されねじれて輪状になった状態。列車の運行を妨げ、鉄道を破壊する手段として用いられる。

After the raid, the soldiers left a Sherman necktie on the branch line so the track could not be quickly repaired.

襲撃の後、兵士たちは支線にねじ曲げられたレールの輪を残して、線路がすぐに修復できないようにした。

意味（1）

(US, rail transport, historical, chiefly in the plural) A segment of rail that has been heated and twisted into a loop, as a means of destroying a railway.

We were compelled to go by carriage, as the railroads had been destroyed, the fat-pine cross-ties burned to heat the rails and the red-hot rails wrapped around the trees growing near the track. We used to call these iron rails Sherman's neckties, and the solemn-looking chimneys standing guard over the former sites of once happy homes were called by the natives Sherman's monuments.]

Sherman neckties （ plural ）