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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

... hardly out of her mouth, she shot the much-enduring Cappadocia off her lap and, restoring her elbows on the rails, leaned right out ...

— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

... gently). The oracle rails that way! Yes, yes! Now I recollect. This junction with the Swedes Did never please thee—lay thyself to sleep, Baptista! Signs like these ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... material. Fundamentally the railroads of any country are the real measures of its progress. In Africa particularly they are the mileposts of civilization. In 1876 there were only 400 miles on the whole continent. Today there are over 30,000 miles. Of this network of rails exactly 11,478 miles are in the Union of South Africa and they comprise the second largest mileage in the world ...

— An African Adventure • Isaac F. Marcosson

... out of the gloom, "farther along are open rails and dense bushes. That's where we're going to watch from. We'll see every soul ...

— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer

... the cheque on the floor, and, pointing with its nose to a gentleman who stood behind a long counter in a sort of stall surrounded with brass rails, told her to present it to the teller, and she'd get the money. Having said which the head disappeared; but it might have been noted by a self-possessed observer, that as soon as Mrs Gaff had picked up the cheque, (bursting two buttons off her gown in the act), the head re-appeared, grinning ...

— Shifting Winds - A Tough Yarn • R.M. Ballantyne

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