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derail

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derail
Chiefly US a device designed to make rolling stock or locomotives leave the rails to avoid a collision or accident
derail [dē′rāl]
(engineering)
To cause a railroad car or engine to run off the rails.
A device to guide railway cars or engines off the tracks to avoid collision or other accident.
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