Definitions for rails

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rails rail

Spelling: [reyl]

IPA: /reɪl/

Rails is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in rails (ailrs).

Definitions for rails

noun

1. a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
2. a fence; railing.
3. one of two fences marking the inside and outside boundaries of a racetrack.
4. one of a pair of steel bars that provide the running surfaces for the wheels of locomotives and railroad cars.
5. the railroad as a means of transportation:
6. rails, stocks or bonds of railroad companies.
7. Nautical. a horizontal member capping a bulwark.
8. Carpentry, Furniture. any of various horizontal members framing panels or the like, as in a system of paneling, paneled door, window sash, or chest of drawers. Compare stile2 .
9. Slang. a line of cocaine crystals or powder for inhaling through the nose.
10. any of numerous birds of the family Rallidae, that have short wings, a narrow body, long toes, and a harsh cry and inhabit grasslands, forests, and marshes in most parts of the world.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish or enclose with a rail or rails.
2. to bring, force, etc., by railing.

verb (used without object)

1. to utter bitter complaint or vehement denunciation (often followed by at or against):

Origin of rails

1250-1300; Middle English raile Old French raille bar, beam Latin rēgula bar, straight piece of wood, regula

Examples for rails

Blaine stresses that he was not called to inspect the rail site.

Just watch the Indian, an' don't let him shut you in on the rail if you can help it.

"Wait, I'll come out;" and opening a door in the rail, he passed around to the girl.

Certainly, these costumes are easy to laugh at, but the time to rail against them has come and gone.

After he had gone, just as Allis was leaving the rail, she was again accosted; this time by Shandy.

After the tunnel was complete, Schmidt went about building a rail line through it.

It is an English habit to rail at the lavish expenditure of the French Government.

To use the one rein meant a crash into the rail, and surely death.

Yes, it costs more to move oil by rail than it does by pipeline.

NWCAA inspectors did not visit the rail facility until five months after Tesoro had disconnected the problematic pipe.