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noun. A bar extending horizontally between supports, as in a fence.

noun. A structure made of such bars and supports and forming a barrier or guard; a railing.

noun. A steel bar used, usually in pairs, as a track for railroad cars or other wheeled vehicles.

noun. A grind rail.

noun. The railroad as a means of transportation.

noun. A horizontal framing member in a door or in paneling.

transitive verb. To supply or enclose with rails or a rail.

noun. Any of various marsh birds of the family Rallidae, found worldwide and characteristically having brownish plumage and short wings.

intransitive verb. To express objections or criticisms in bitter, harsh, or abusive language. synonym: scold.

noun. A garment; dress; robe: now only in the compound night-rail.

noun. A kerchief.

To inclose with rails: often with in or off.

To furnish with rails; lay the rails of, as a railway; construct a railway upon or along, as a street.

To fish with a hand-line over the rail of a ship or boat.

To dress; clothe.

To speak bitterly, opprobriously, or reproachfully; use acrimonious expressions; scoff; inveigh.

Synonyms of rail at. To upbraid, scold or scold at or scold about, inveigh against, abuse, objurgate. Railing and scolding are always undignified, if not improper; literally, abusing is improper; all three words may by hyperbole be used for talk which is proper.

To scoff at; taunt; scold; banter; affect by railing or raillery.

To range in a line; set in order.

noun. A bird of the subfamily Rallinæ, and especially of the genus Rallus; a water-rail, land-rail, marsh-hen, or crake.

To run; flow.

noun. A bar of wood or other material passing from one post or other support to another.

noun. A structure consisting of rails and their sustaining posts, balusters, or pillars, and constituting an inclosure or line of division: often used in the plural, and also called a railing.

noun. In joinery, a horizontal timber in a piece of framing or paneling.

noun. Nautical, one of several bars or timbers in a ship, serving for inclosure or support.

noun. One of the iron or (now generally) steel bars or beams used on the permanent way of a railway to support and guide the wheels of cars and motors.

noun. The railway or railroad as a means of transport: as, to travel or send goods by railroading

noun. In cotton-spinning, a bar having an up-and-down motion, by which yarn passing through is guided upon the bar and is distributed upon the bobbins.

noun. An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.

transitive verb. To inclose with rails or a railing.

transitive verb. To range in a line.

intransitive verb. To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against, formerly by on.

transitive verb. To rail at.

transitive verb. To move or influence by railing.

noun. Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidæ, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.

noun. the corncrake.

noun. A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc.

noun. A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.

noun. A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc.

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noun. The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks.

noun. The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed.

noun. A railroad as a means of transportation.

noun. a railing.

noun. See under Fence.

noun. A guard rail. See under Guard.

noun. a splice connecting the adjacent ends of rails, in distinction from a chair, which is merely a seat. The two devices are sometimes united. Among several hundred varieties, the fish joint is standard. See Fish joint, under Fish.

noun. a train of rolls in a rolling mill, for making rails for railroads from blooms or billets.

intransitive verb. To flow forth; to roll out; to course.

"In the nineteenth century, when people wanted to describe the new transportation technology that went chug-chug-chug, they called the engine an “iron horse” and the rail system “track way” (if they were Dutch) or “rail way” (if they were English) or “iron way” (if they were French, German, or Italian) or “narrow iron lane” (if they were Greek)."

adhesion of wheels to rails  adhesion-rail  bare  barlow rail  base-rail  

Banded Rail  night-rail  railed  railing  

abuse  blackguard  clapperclaw  complain  confine  

Bayle  Braille  Dail  Dale  Gael  

bar  beam  bench  board  bridge  

L  attack  baluster  balustrade  banister  

style  

railed  railing  rails