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Railing   /rˈeɪlɪŋ/   Listen
Railing

noun
1.
A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.  Synonym: rail.
2.
Material for making rails or rails collectively.



Rail

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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"Railing" Quotes from Famous Books



... position, for there was a look of abject, hopeless terror upon his face. The blind man, of course, could see nothing of his danger. His one desire was to be revenged upon his enemy. Closer and closer they came to the frail railing. Once they missed it, and staggered a foot away from it. Then they came back to it again, and lurched against it. The woodwork snapped, and the two men fell over the edge on to the sloping bank below. Still locked together they rolled over and over, down the declivity towards the edge of the ...
— My Strangest Case • Guy Boothby

... in front of the Judge's desk thirty or forty members of the Campbell County bar sat, while ranged behind them and just within the railing was a row of tables for the ...
— The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan - or: the Headless Horror. • Unknown

... from where the seats for the better folk were raised was a railing to keep the poorer people from crowding in front of the target. Already, while it was early, the benches were beginning to fill with people of quality, who kept constantly arriving in little carts or upon ...
— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle

... little buildings, which, in part, served for lodging a few troops and their horses. All these buildings are taken down; the Place du Carrousel is considerably enlarged by the demolition of various circumjacent edifices; and the wall is replaced by a handsome iron railing, fixed on a parapet about four feet high. In this railing are three gates, the centre one of which is surmounted by cocks, holding in their beak a civic crown over the letters R. F. the initials of the words Republique ...
— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon

... royal closet, at the palace of Hampton Court, stood King William III. leaning against a gilt railing, placed round some ornamental objects, near one of the windows. The famous Lord Keeper Somers stood beside him, while, at a little distance behind appeared Keppel, Lord Albemarle, and before him, a tall, fine-looking man, somewhat past the middle age, slight, ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James


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