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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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— Flowers of Freethought - (First Series) • George W. Foote

... shapelessly like coal, and to flash in the sun like mirrors. He was deep in his anticipations of the Soudan, when he heard his name called out softly in a woman's voice, and, looking up, found himself close by the rails. ...

— The Four Feathers • A. E. W. Mason

... order to be sent to Scotland, and deposited in his own Tomb at Kirkhill. But leave not being given by Authority as was expected, it was again brought back to the Tower, and buried by the side of Kilmarnock and Balmerino, close to the Communion-rails in the little church of St. Peter-on-the-Green, where so much Royal and ...

— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 • George Augustus Sala

... slits In the wet asphalt... Purring lights... red and green and golden-whiskered... Digging daintily pointed claws in the soft mud... ... But you did not know... As the trains made golden augers Boring in the darkness... How my heart kept racing out along the rails, As a spider runs along a thread And hauls him in again To some drawing point... You did not know How wild ducks' wings Itch at dawn... How at dawn the necks of wild ducks Arch to the sun And new-mown air ...

— Sun-Up and Other Poems • Lola Ridge

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