Sekirov Dictionary

rail

/ɹeɪ(ə)l/

noun 13
verb 9
forms 5
phrases 2

noun13

A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
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A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- We travelled to the seaside by rail.
A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
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(Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- We're experimenting with ads in the right-hand rail.
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A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- ISA devices draw power from the +5 V, −5 V, +12 V, and −12 V rails of the power supply unit.
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A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- Do a couple rails and chase your own tail — 2013
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One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- Rails alone can only ever have a marginal effect on a board's general turning ability. — 2000
The raised edge of the game board.
(no longer used) An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
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(no longer used) Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief.
- A course hempen raile about her shoulders. — 1592

verb9

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To complain violently (against, about).
- Till thou canst raile the seale from off my bond Thou but offend'st thy Lungs to speake so loud: Repaire thy wit good youth, or it will fall To endlesse ruine. I stand heere for Law. — 1596
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To enclose with rails or a railing.
- They ought to rail off the playground.
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To travel by railway.
- Mottram of the Indian Survey had ridden thirty and railed one hundred miles from his lonely post in the desert […] — 1890
(slang) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
To place on a track.
(slang, vulgar) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
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To range in a line.
- They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart. — 1622
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(no longer used) To gush; to flow.
- his breste and his brayle was bloodé – and hit rayled all over the see. — 1889
(no longer used) To blow.

forms

railed · railing · raileth · rails · railest

Phrases with rail

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