nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written
Points are the movable rails that send a train onto another line. Set the points, a failure of the points.
They are the commonest single cause of delay on a railway, since they freeze, jam and fail. Americans call the same thing a switch, and points is the British word.
Definitions of points
1nounrailThe movable rails that send a train onto another line.C1
“Frozen points held every train out of the station for two hours.”