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Rails

noun

1.

A bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll. Synonyms: rail, runway, track.

Rail

noun

1.

A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports. Synonym: railing.

2.

Short for railway. "He was concerned with rail safety"

3.

A bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll. Synonyms: rails, runway, track.

4.

A horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal).

5.

Any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud.

verb

(past & past part. railed; pres. part. railing)

1.

Complain bitterly. Synonym: inveigh.

2.

Enclose with rails. Synonym: rail in.

3.

Provide with rails.

4.

Separate with a railing. Synonym: rail off.

5.

Convey (goods etc.) by rails.

6.

Travel by rail or train. Synonym: train. "She trained to Hamburg"

7.

Lay with rails.

8.

Fish with a handline over the rails of a boat.

9.

Spread negative information about. Synonyms: revile, vilify, vituperate.

10.

Criticize severely. Synonym: fulminate. "She railed against the bad social policies"

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"Rails" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Fleet shot up above the bridge rails, and the impatient semaphore on the Flagship's bridge commenced ...

— A Tall Ship - On Other Naval Occasions • Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie

... elevated spot, commanding a view of the estate and surrounding country. The cane fields presented a novel appearance—being without fences of any description. Even those fields which lie bordering on the highways, are wholly unprotected by hedge, ditch, or rails. This is from necessity. Wooden fences they cannot have, for lack of timber. Hedges are not used, because they are found to withdraw the moisture from the canes. To prevent depredations, there are watchmen on ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... reverts to that early period of my life I become my own photographer and get various pictures of myself, either as picking, hoeing, or planting cotton, of pulling fodder or splitting rails, for these were the things I did from ...

— Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements • Various

... toward the upper shore of Plover Lake, taking to the railroad track, whose directness and dryness make it the natural highway for pedestrians on the plains. She stepped from tie to tie, in long strides. At each road-crossing she had to crawl over a cattle-guard of sharpened timbers. She walked the rails, balancing with arms extended, cautious heel before toe. As she lost balance her body bent over, her arms revolved wildly, and when she toppled she ...

— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

... cotton hat, and glanced around upon the scars of war. He was about to speak lightly; but as he looked upon the red washouts in the forsaken fields, and the dried sloughs in and beside the highway, snaggy with broken fence-rails and their margins blackened by teamsters' night-fires, he fell to brooding on the impoverishment of eleven States, and on the hundreds of thousands of men and women sitting in the ashes of their desolated hopes and the lingering fear of unspeakable humiliations. ...

— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable

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